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Ocean Currents

Oceanic currents include the movement and transport of sea water across the world's oceans. They are driven by tides, winds, and differences in water density.

Experimental Eddy Products

Product Families	Ocean Currents Sea Surface Height Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature

Summary	The sea surface height team in NOAA’s Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry produces two experimental mesoscale eddy products: Multiparameter Eddy Significance Index (MESI) MUltiparameter NRT System for Tracking Eddies Retroactively (MUNSTER)

Sea level Anomaly and Geostrophic Currents, multi-mission, global, optimal interpolation, gridded

Product Families	Ocean Currents Sea Surface Height

Summary	The NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry's (LSA) sea surface height team produces 0.25-degree longitude/latitude Level-3 sea level anomaly (SLA) daily datasets by applying optimal interpolation to along-track satellite observations over the global ocean from a constellation of radar altimeter missions. Theses grids are produced with near-real time (3-5 hour latency) data. Geostrophic Currents are produced from the SLA and are included in the dataset.

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