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• Monthly mean climate data from the direct access data server of the Pacific Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the USA. (For heat flux information use the CHANGE DATAT SET button and select either the Esbensen-Kushnir or the Oberhuber data set.)
• Real time heat flux from buoys operated off the USA west coast by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• Real time atmosphere and water data from weather stations operated in Kiel fjord, Baltic Sea, by the Institute of Marine Research of Kiel University, Germany. (in German)
• Real time weekly surface temperature maps for the North Sea and Baltic Sea, updated on Wednesdays by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) of Germany. (deutsche Version)

• Documentation on an SHEBA (Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean), an Arctic research programme to measure heat and freshwater fluxes between ocean and atmosphere, with a good photo library of the programme's ice station.
• Some background for theSHEBA programme, from the Atmospheric Technology Division of the National Center for Atmospheric Research NCAR of the USA.
• A "popular science" article about the Sheba programme from the Scientific American.