Ocean Now

Ocean Now provides a live view of the ocean, atmosphere, and rivers on a map. Data layers include ocean temperature, salinity, sea ice, currents, the storms, the weather over the water and on land, the instruments deployed at sea, and many more, drawn from publicly available datasets by data publishers and kept current through the day. We value your privacy. Ocean Now collects absolutely no data about you, does not sell any ads, and there are no online logins or accounts. The tool is built to empower you. FOR EVERYONE • Sea surface temperature and surface currents from Mercator Ocean's global model, the currents drawn as moving particles • Wave height from ECMWF's wave model • NOAA tide gauges and their latest readings • Country and state borders, and a latitude and longitude grid • Press and hold anywhere for its depth, the layers' values there and a forecast • The weather where you are, from Apple Weather, on a button by the map • Night: the whole app in red, its brightness yours, to keep your eyes ready for the dark • Your settings, tracks, saved shapes and kept views on all your devices, through your own iCloud • A compass rose where you are, true and magnetic • A waypoint at any position typed into Search, its distance and bearing from you OCEAN NOW PREMIUM An in-app purchase that opens every other layer, 134 of them: • Ocean models: temperature, salinity, sea surface height, currents from the surface to 1,000 meters and at the sea floor, mixed layer depth, heat content, air–sea heat and fresh water, sea ice and chemistry from Mercator Ocean, the US Navy's ESPC and NOAA's RTOFS, with regional models for the US East Coast (ECCOFS) and the Chesapeake Bay (CBEFS) • Satellites: sea surface temperature and its anomaly, chlorophyll, sea ice, GOES cloud and infrared imagery • Weather: wind, air temperature, pressure, 500 hPa heights, clouds and rain from ECMWF and NOAA's GFS, and NEXRAD weather radar • Storms: the National Hurricane Center's cones, tracks, forecast intensity, coastal watches and warnings, and when tropical-storm winds may arrive • At sea: Argo floats, ocean gliders, NOAA's uncrewed surface vehicles, NDBC and tropical moored buoys, OOI arrays, research vessels and radiosondes, with gliders' and vehicles' whole tracks • Rivers and coasts: 22,000 river, lake and tide gauges across the US, Canada and Europe, and the great Arctic rivers • Depth contours, exclusive economic zones, a detailed coastline, GEBCO's bathymetry, NOAA's nautical charts of US waters, and whose waters a point is in • Apple Weather's forecast hour by hour and for ten days, with its alerts • Your photos and videos on the map, where you took them • Your own files on the map: GeoJSON, KML, KMZ and shapefiles • Draw your own waypoints, lines, paths, polygons and circles, and Go To a waypoint, live MORE IN THE APP • Keep a view for offline use • Follow your position with heading up, and record your track, kept on your device and shared only as a file you choose (GPX, GeoJSON, KML, CSV) • Measure a path, a polygon or a circle along great circles — length, area and sides — and keep your shapes on the map, in named groups • Share a view as a link, or as an image with its colorbars and sources • Your units, time zone, text size and own sets of layers • Siri and Shortcuts: show a layer or go to a place • On a Mac or large iPad, windows float where you put them NOT FOR NAVIGATION Ocean Now is for education and general awareness. It is not a navigation aid: do not use it to navigate, to plan or follow a route, to judge depth or position, or for any decision where life, safety or property is at stake. Its data come from models, satellites and instruments run by others and can be late, missing or wrong. For navigation, use official nautical charts and the forecasts and warnings of your national authorities. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://oceannow.bluetao.com/privacy