Sea Breeze for World Wind is a large and sweeping collection of high resolution maps depicting a wide array of oceanic characteristics and properties. Data categories include Bathymetry, Seafloor Features, Geology, Geophysics, Oceanography and Meteorology.

This World Wind add-on includes over 600 maps covering nearly 50 physical, chemical and biological parameters of the world's oceans and seas. The highest resolution publicly available data is compiled from the leading, most up to date sources to provide presentation quality analyses.

Sea Breeze for World Wind allows you to readily visualize the complex processes that underlie the behavior of Earth's largest climatic and biological engine. It is designed to provide a scientific reference source of oceanographic data, as well as an intuitive interface for the educational exploration of oceanic properties.

Features

Bathymetry and Topography

Sea Breeze includes the color Ochre, Olive and Ultramarine and grayscale Charcoal shaded relief maps from PanglossTech's Shaded Relief add-on. These maps are derived from the best available global bathymetry datasets and have a maximum resolution of approximately 1 km (~0.6 miles, or ~30 arc sec). High resolution bathymetric contours and a highly detailed shoreline are also provided.

Seafloor Features

Sea Breeze identifies over 18,000 geographic features on the seabed. Over 30 categories of items include: seamounts, fracture zones, basins, trenches, ridges, reefs, islands, seas, gulfs and bays.

Geology and Geophysics

Sea Breeze provides maps of seafloor earthquake frequency and depth, tsunamis, tectonic plates and hotspots. Geological maps of crustal properties such as age, thickness and magnetism are also included.

Oceanography

Sea Breeze explores many physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the marine world (1). The distribution of numerous nutrients and inorganic ions are depicted at varying depths, from the surface to the ocean bottom. These parameters include temperature, chlorophyll, oxygen, salinity, phosphate and nitrate, among others. Ocean currents control the flow of heat and nutrients throughout the marine environment. Maps are presented that illustrate the major components of this system.

Meteorology

Climatologies of assorted atmospheric phenomena related to oceanic processes are illustrated by Sea Breeze. Air temperature and pressure maps are provided along with wind speeds and direction. Precipitation, cloud cover and sea ice are also included.

Climate Change

Sea Breeze contains maps depicting changes in the heat content of the oceans over the last 50 years at multiple depths. Coral bleaching conditions in recent years are also included.

System Requirements

1.  Specifically, datasets include:

Ultramarine Shaded Relief	Crustal Magnetic Field	Ocean Currents Zonal
Charcoal Shaded Relief	Crustal Thickness	Ocean Currents Meridional
Outline Maps	Sea Surface Temperature	Ocean Currents Vectors
Shoreline, 3 Resolutions	SST Contours	Ocean Current Names
Bathymetric Contours	Chlorophyll	Thermohaline Conveyor
Seafloor Features	Density	Heat Content
Earthquake Density	Nitrate	Degree Heating Weeks
Earthquake Depth	Oxygen	Heating Hotspots
Tectonic Plates	Oxygen Saturation	Large Marine Ecosystems
Ocean Hotspots	Oxygen Utilization	SST Zonal Anomaly
Tsunami Frequency	Phosphate	Tropical Storms
Tsunami Source Events	Salinity	Air Pressure
Tsunami Stations	Silicate	Air Temperature
Geoid	Temperature	Cloud Cover
Sediment	Water Pressure	Precipitation
Seafloor Age	Ocean Topography	Seawind Velocity Maps
Continental Shelf	Ocean Current Velocity	Seawind Vector Maps
Magnetic Field Strength		Sea Ice

2.  Where it is possible and appropriate, datasets are analyzed as Annual and Seasonal (Jan-Mar, Apr-Jun, Jul-Sep, Oct-Dec) averages at up to 13 depths from the surface to -5000 meters.