◇ The Living Ocean

One planet. One living ocean.

Sea-surface temperature wrapped around a real globe — the warm equator, the cold poles, the Gulf Stream's warm tongue up the coast. Spin it, then dive: the globe flattens into a chart and the currents wake up, streaming live beneath your cursor.

Free · part of Magna Earth · NASA GHRSST · NOAA RTOFS · NOAA ENSO
How it works

One body of water, read live

No forecast, no model of your break — just the real instruments the agencies watch, wrapped on a globe you can spin, flatten, and dive into.

Sea temperature, live

NASA GHRSST MUR, ~1km daily — the ocean's actual color, from the warm equator to the cold poles, the Gulf Stream's warm tongue riding up the US coast.

Currents that wake up

NOAA RTOFS ocean-model currents, streamed as flowing particles. Barely visible from orbit — dive toward the water and the Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, and the Antarctic Circumpolar start to move.

Surface, or Forces Beneath

Flip the dock's toggle to descend past the surface — NOAA GODAS subsurface temperature anomaly and the Niño 3.4 index, the warm water column that shows up as an El Niño advisory months later.

What's actually on screen

The real feeds, not a simulation

Globe ⇄ Flat

Mapbox v3 morphs the geometry itself — the planet wraps into a globe or unrolls into a flat chart, same data, same currents, different lens.

Layers you control

Sea temperature, currents, wind, and atmosphere each toggle independently from the dock — turn off what you don't want to see.

Public agency data, cited

NASA GIBS/GHRSST for temperature, NOAA RTOFS for currents, NOAA GODAS + CPC for the subsurface and ENSO state — the same instruments forecasters read, in one place.

This surfaces public agency data. It is not a forecast and not an emergency signal — it exists so you see what the agencies see, with a citation.