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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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