Rough Weather Sailing – BT Global Challenge 2000

Footage from the BT Global Challenge 2000/01 – round the world yacht race
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The Geography of New Zealand

http://www.WatchMojo.com presents: A look at the geography of New Zealand.
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Quest for the North Pole – A solo journey to the geographic North Pole

In 2004, Explorer WAVE Vidmar set out from Siberia, Russia in an attempt to become the first American solo and unsupported to the geographic North Pole. Average temperature around -30F, some days as low as -57F, some days as warm as -15F.
This is a short clip of him sledging through the arctic ice, with [...]

22 Years of Sea Surface Temperatures

The NOAA polar-orbiting satellites (POES) have been collecting sea surface temperature data for over 22 years. This animation is a compilation of that data from January 1985 – January 2007. Of note are the changes in the Gulf Stream, El Nino and La Nina cycles in the Pacific, and the seansonal changes in [...]

GODAS Monthly Pacific Zonal Average Temperature Anomaly Animation

Pacific Zonal Average Temperature Anomaly Animation to depths of 1000 meters, available through the NOAA NCEP GODAS website in .gif format.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/GODAS/mnth_movie.shtml
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Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

ESA’s Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has been designed to observe soil moisture over the Earth’s landmasses and salinity over the oceans. Soil moisture data are urgently required for hydrological studies and data on ocean salinity are vital for improving our understanding of ocean circulation patterns. Scheduled for launch in 2009, SMOS is [...]

Lighthouses and waves during VERY stormy weather

Lighthouses vs. huge waves
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Earth & Nature: A wonderful World is changing

[ http://www.oloscience.com ] Climate change is any long-term significant change in the “average weather” that a given region experiences. Average weather may include average temperature, precipitation and wind patterns. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years. These changes can be caused [...]