Atlantic Ocean
Remarkable features
Surface: 100 000 000 km2
Maximum depth: 8 000 m
Currents: Brazil current, South and north Equatorial, Guinea counter current, Gulf Stream (warm currents), Binguele, Canarias, Labrador, Greenland (cold currents)
Seas: North Sea, Channel, Baltic, Caribean, Mediterranean
Oscillation phenomena: North Atlantic Oscillation
Atlantic Ocean in the Aviso web site
- Apr. 2005: Series of hurricanes
- Apr. 2011: Routing ships with the currents
- Apr. 2012: Phenomenal seas
- Apr. 2020: Arcachon Bay between tides
- Assimilation in wave models
- Atlantic storm
- Aug. 2014: The Agulhas current leaks
- Aug. 2020: Tides off the Amazon River mouth
- Aug. 11, 2003: Four seasons in the Atlantic
- Aug. 17, 2005: The seasons of the Gulf Stream
- Brazil-Malvinas confluence
- Currents around the world
- Decadal oscillations
- Dec. 29, 2009: On the borders of the Gulf Stream
- Dec. 8, 2003: Change of units
- Feb. 2005: Brazil-Malvinas confluence
- Feb. 15, 2008: Variable winds in Atlantic Ocean
- Feb. 18, 2004: North Atlantic sea level heights over
- Feb. 25, 2010: Navidad current and NAO
- Feb. 26, 2007: Wind fields changes in latitude and in time
- Gulf Stream & Kuroshio
- Isabel 2003
- Jan. 2005: Current heat
- Jan. 2013: Salinity gets finer with altimetry
- Jan. 17, 2005: The right color scale for the right data
- Jan. 17, 2006: About Eddy Kinetic Energy (2/2)
- Jan. 23, 2007: The Equator against the current
- Jul. 2012: North Atlantic Subpolar front shifts
- Jul. 2024: Bay of Fundy tides seen by the FES2022 model
- July 2010: North Atlantic Tides
- July 28, 2003: North Atlantic eddies
- Jun. 2001: An in-depth view
- June 10, 2010: Gulf Stream variability
- June 15, 2004: SLA vs ADT
- June 18, 2009, Meddies in Atlantic Ocean
- June 2016: Turning around in the Lofoten eddy
- Katrina 2005
- Leartherback turtles in eddies
- Mar. 2016: Storm in the Bay of Biscay
- Mar. 27, 2006: Ocean circulation data indicators
- May 15, 2004: Comparing winds and waves
- May 2013: Drifting buoy
- NAO
- Nov. 10, 2003: Different points of view
- Nov. 20, 2008: Fierce gale for the Vendée Globe fleet
- Nov. 30, 2010: Benguela current, an Atlantic Niño ?
- Oct. 2024: Swot & swell
- Oct. 17, 2006: Land effects vs land mask effects
- Oct. 2, 2007: Hurricane Dean trajectory
- Oct. 6, 2003: Variance
- Opal 1995
- Route du Rhum 1994
- Route du Rhum 1998
- Seasons in the North Atlantic
- Sep. 2021: A buoy spiraling over Burdwood Bank
- Sep. 2022: Internal tides off the Amazon shelf change with the seasons
- Sep. 2024: Changing scale in eddy observation
- Sep. 22, 2006: Atlantic Ocean with steric effects
- Soprane
- Thermohaline circulation
- Tides around the world
- Transat Jacques Vabre 1995
- Vendée Globe 1996