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Please note: Global MODAS was retired on 5 April 2013 and replaced by operational 1/12° HYCOM. Users should transition to
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Global Agulhas Region Arabian Sea Black Sea




East China Sea Equatorial Pacific Floridia Straits Gulf of Alaska




Gulf of Mexico Gulf Stream Region Indian Ocean Japan/East Sea




Kuroshio Region Mediterranean North Atlantic North Pacific




Pacific West Coast Sea of Okhotsk South Atlantic South China Sea



South Pacific Taiwan Tehuantapec


Barron, C. N., and A. B. Kara, 2006:
Satellite-based daily SSTs over the global ocean,
 Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L15603, doi:10.1029/2006GL026356.

Barron, C. N., A. B. Kara,and G. A. Jacobs, 2009:
Objective estimates of westward Rossby wave and eddy propagation from sea surface height analyses
 Journal of Geophysical Research 114, C03013, doi:10.1029/2008JC005044



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This page was last updated 16 July 2008.