Caribbean Watch: Sint Maarten
This page contains current ocean conditions in the Caribbean Sea, focusing on Sint Maarten, inferred from the Mercator Ocean reanalysis dataset.
Physical oceanographic conditions in the Caribbean Sea are considered. Here we use a combination of data from Mercator Ocean and a state-of-the-art, fine-scale hydrodynamic model of the full Caribbean Sea region using ADCIRC. The former is an operational 1/12º global ocean physics and analysis data set. This assimilates data using the NEMO ocean model (version 3.1, at a horizontal spatial resolution of 1/12º, 3-9 km) from various sources, including satellite and shipboard observations, to give the best, continuous approximation of ocean behaviour in space and time, over the period 2007-2017.
Current conditions
Up to date two-hourly mean surface currents of the Caribbean Sea in the regional waters of Sint Maarten, either side of today 1 Sep 2023: from a week ago on 25 Aug 2023 and forecast nine days ahead to 10 Sep 2023.