Abstract

The electronic Atlas presents a summary of many major aspects of the Far Eastern Seas (FES) regional oceanography presented as tables, pictures and text materials. CD-ROM contains a brief annotated description of data on the main physical and geographical characteristics, peculiarities of hydrological regime, water masses, tidal phenomena, waters circulation and ice conditions in the FES. It is presented vast graphic material (1680 color pictures) characterizing the large-scale background peculiarities of distribution and inter-annual variability of the sea water temperature, salinity, sound speed, some hydrochemical elements and currents. It is given a list of the available data bases of free access and the Web-sites containing additional operative and archived data on a wide circle of special and interrelated problems of studying and exploring the region. The system provides fast access to the specially selected data stored on CD-ROM, as well as to the other operative or generalized reference information scattered among various sources, and hence, limited for wide use. CD-ROM is distributed on a non-commercial basis. A copy of full version will be available through the Internet <www.pacificinfo.ru>.