Marinexplore
August 28, 2012 4:13 PM Subscribe
Have you ever wondered what the water temperature off the Kamchatka Peninsula is? What about the wind speed in the Andaman Sea? Or maybe you’re losing sleep over the chlorophyll levels in the South Pacific. Fortunately, all of that information –- and 450 million other data points collected from oceanographic instruments around the world –- is freely and easily accessible thanks to the Marinexplore project.
The free sign-up asks you to specify an e-mail address, an "area of expertise", and "software skills". If you don't mind providing those - or at least making them up - this is a super-neat demonstration of what the Web can do.
The free sign-up asks you to specify an e-mail address, an "area of expertise", and "software skills". If you don't mind providing those - or at least making them up - this is a super-neat demonstration of what the Web can do.
« Older I'm your toy, I'm your old boy | Nobody puts baby in a corner Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by eustatic at 8:45 PM on August 28, 2012