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This course was written by Mark Brandon [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] .

Except for third-party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

Course image: Joshua Conley in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course:

Figure 8: courtesy of Mark Brandon

Figure 9: http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/

Figure 10(a) and 10(b): from: Tait, R.V. (1968), Elements of Marine Ecology, Butterworth Heinemann

Figure 13 and 14: from Schlitzer, R. (2000) 'Electronic atlas of WOCE hydrographic and tracer data now available', Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, vol. 81, no. 5, p. 45

Figure 16: courtesy of Mark Brandon

Figure 18: from Perry, A.H. and Walker, J.M. (1977) The Ocean-Atmosphere System, Longman

Figure 20: adapted from Emery, W.J. and Meinke, J. (1986) 'Global water masses - summary and review', Oceanologica Acta, vol. 9, Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Science

Figure 21: courtesy of Mark Brandon

Figure 22: adapted from: MacDonald et al. (2005) 'Recent climate change in the Arctic', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 342, no. 1-3, 15 April 2005, Elsevier Inc.

Video 1: Using Google Earth to look at the ocean with Mark Brandon : © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/

Video 2: Using Google Earth with a file containing information in layers with Mark Brandon © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/

Video 3: United States National Oceanograph and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) http://www.noaa.gov/

Video 4: Demonstration on how to use layers with Google Earth with Mark Brandon. © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/

Video 5: extract (including transcript) from BBC Planet Earth Episode 11 'Ocean Deep' © BBC

Video 6: extract (including transcript) from BBC Life in the Freezer, Episode 4 © BBC

Video 7: Mark Brandon for The Open University using data from NASA

Video 8: Mark Brandon for The Open University using data from NASA

Video 9: The international Arctic Research Center University of Alaska Fairbanks

Video 10: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

Video 11: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/

Video 12: NASA http://www.nasa.gov/

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