Layers and Resources

Maritime boundaries of Exclusive Economic Zones

Boundaries

Data that define international borders, maritime boundaries and administrative units.

Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase

Global maritime boundaries and exclusive economic zones (EEZ)

Global Administrative Areas

Global country and administrative boundaries

Large Marine Ecosystems

Large Marine Ecosystems (LME)

Longhurst Biogeographical Provinces

This dataset represents a partition of the world oceans into provinces as defined by Longhurst (1995; 1998; 2006)

Marine Ecoregions of the World (MEOW)

Global marine realms, provinces, and ecoregions

from Halpern et al (2008), "Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems"

Human Impact

Data about anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems

Human Impacts to Marine Ecosystems

Global data on human impacts to marine ecosystems

SRTM 30 Plus global elevation dataset

Physical Environment

Base physical environment data

Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline (GSHHS)

GSHHS database v1.10

ETOPO1 Global Topography

1 arc-minute global topography

GEBCO Global Topography

30 arc-second global topography

SRTM30_PLUS Global Topography

30 arc-second global topography

from the AVISO Sea Surface Height dataset

Oceanographic Data

Physical and biological oceanographic data

AVHRR Sea Surface Temperature

AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder SST data

Ocean Primary Productivity

Primary productivity data

QuikSCAT Wind

QuikSCAT wind data

NASA OceanColor Chlorophyll

NASA OceanColor Chlorophyll A data

HYCOM model output

Global HYCOM + NCODA Hindcast data