Weather

Here are few links to weather, climate and ice resources that I find useful.

Where it exists I have linked to the pages specifically designed for mariners with low bandwidth.

Synoptic Charts

• South Atlantic (West) from Brazilian meteo service
• South Atlantic (West) from the Uruguayan met service
• South Atlantic (East) from the South African met service
• Pacific (East) from the Chilean met service
• French Polynesia 36hr forecast from Meto France Polynesia
• South West Pacific from the New Zealand Met Service

Current Wind Data

•  ASCAT – Global Current Wind Observations

Historical Wind Data

• Climatology of Global Ocean Winds (COGOW)

Antarctic Ice

• Polar View – SAR high resolution images are useful (summer season)
• NASA MODIS Rapid Response Antarctic Mosaic
• US national Ice Centre Antarctic Icebergs

OSCAR – Ocean Currents in GRIB format

• http://www.svsarana.com/oscar/

National Weather Services

• Argentine Weather Service
• Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• Brazilian Weather Service
• Chilean Weather Service
• Chilean Weather Service – low bandwidth version for mariners
• Chilean Weather Service – English version of the low bandwidth site
• French Polynesia Meteo
• New Zealand Met Service
• South African Weather Service
• Uruguayan met service

El Niño

• ENSO wrap up from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology
• El Niño on Wikipedia
• NOAA’s El Niño portal
• NIWA from NZ’s introduction