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Currents near the surface of Earth's oceans: Red lines depict the major warm currents; blue lines depict the major cool currents.
Bloom (2010) Global Climate Change: Convergence of Disciplines. Sinauer Associates.
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The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean...
SUMMARY Selected for the CLEAN Collection. This NASA animation depicts thermohaline circulation in the ocean and how it relates to salinity and water density. It... More »
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Potential impacts of changes in the...
Potential impacts of changes in the thermohaline circulation include climate alteration, elevation in sea level and disturbance to ecosystems. The nature of the thermohaline... More »
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Ocean General Circulation Models
Ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) are computer programs that evolve the ocean's three-dimensional state forward in time. This layer contains over 95% of the... More »
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Ocean Currents: Is the Global Conveyor Belt...
Ocean waters circulate around the globe in established patterns or currents that derive from the following factors: • Differences in solar energy received by the... More »
Barents Sea
Last Updated on 2013-05-14 at 13:12
The Barents Sea is one of the Arctic seas found on the Siberian shelf; part of the larger Arctic mediterranean Sea (are mostly enclosed by land).
It is located north of the... More »
Podcast: Great Ocean Conveyor Belt: Part II - CLEAN
Last Updated on 2013-04-04 at 17:23
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection.
This podcast features the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt and potential impact of an increase in fresh water (from melting sea ice... More »
The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean...
Last Updated on 2013-04-04 at 14:28
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Selected for the CLEAN Collection.
This NASA animation depicts thermohaline circulation in the ocean and how it relates to salinity and water density. It... More »
Lab Exercise: Ocean Productivity and Nutrients:...
Last Updated on 2012-10-08 at 18:29
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In this lab, students learn how to use actual observational (chemical) data to investigate the role of ocean biology in redistributing nutrients between the surface... More »
Ocean General Circulation Models
Last Updated on 2012-09-17 at 20:13
Ocean general circulation models (OGCMs) are computer programs that evolve the ocean's three-dimensional state forward in time. This layer contains over 95% of the... More »
Thermohaline circulation
Last Updated on 2012-08-22 at 14:54
Thermohaline circulation (THC) refers to ocean currents driven by fluxes of heat and salinity gradients throughout the seas of the world.The phenomenon of thermohaline... More »
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