Category: Climate

Sea temperatures from HMS Beagle

  The graph shows a comparison between modern sea surface temperatures (SST) and temperatures measured during the 1831-1836 voyage of Captain Fitzroy and Charles Darwin on HMS Beagle. Data collected by the Beagle were assigned to weekly buckets of…

Ocean drifters

  The map shows tracks of drifting buoys deployed in the southern ocean between 2005 and 2016. The underlying dataset consists of 15-minute gps data collected from 4608 buoys, available from NOAA ftp://ftp.aoml.noaa.gov/pub/phod/buoydata/. Colour indicates speed of drift….