Ocean Circulation By: Samantha Hampton In Partnership With: Dr.
Zafer Top
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Ocean Circulation Ocean circulation is a continuous, directed
movement of seawater generated by the forces acting upon this mean
flow, such as breaking waves, wind, Coriolis effect, cabbeling,
temperature and salinity differences, with tides caused by the
gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun. depth contours,
shoreline configurations and interaction with other currents
influence a current's direction and strength
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Ocean Circulation Importance Ocean Circulation is important
because the ocean contains gases like methane, and carbon dioxide,
which are greenhouse gases. With global and ocean climate change
becoming a main topic in todays economy, the information on what
the oceans do and where and when is very important to understand
and predict direction of climate increasing or decreasing.
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Thermohaline C:\Users\rowps5\Documents\Thermohaline.web.pdf The
thermohaline circulation of the ocean refers to the flow of ocean
water caused by changes in density. This can occur as the ocean is
warmed or cooled at the surface by radiation and contact with the
atmosphere, or by the addition of fresh water (rain, snow, and
river runoff) or salt (from formation of sea ice).sea ice
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Conveyor Belt The ocean conveyor gets its start in the
Norwegian Sea, where warm water from the Gulf Stream heats the
atmosphere in the cold northern latitudes. This loss of heat to the
atmosphere makes the water cooler and denser, causing it to sink to
the bottom of the ocean. As more warm water is transported north,
the cooler water sinks and moves south to make room for the
incoming warm water. This cold bottom water flows south of the
equator all the way down to Antarctica. Eventually, the cold bottom
waters returm to the surface through mixing and wind-driven
upwelling, continuing the conveyor belt that encircles the
globe.
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Conclusion In conclusion ocean circulation effects our everyday
lives very greatly. It can change our earths climate and the
weather. This is a huge deal today in the economy because the
increase in pollution has caused the air to get hotter causing the
polar ice caps to melt leaving us with close to no fresh water
sources. Ocean Circulation also effects the lives of fish, which we
eat so if they die off then we dont have that for food.
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Data Between the southern tip of Greenland and the coast of
Labrador illustrating the recent ventilation of the deep North
Atlantic by the main components of North
Ahttp://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.htmltlantic Deep
Water.
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Resources http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/conveyor.html
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/kits/currents/07measure6.html
https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/sage/oceanography/lesson3/concepts.html
http://pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/earth-from-space.html
http://ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/ohc_npac.html
http://ospo.noaa.gov/Products/ocean/ohc_natl.html
www.dictionary.com www.google.com Dr. Zafer Top
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THANK YOU Huge shout out to Dr. Zafer Top for helping me gather
the data for this presentation! I have learned so much from him
through this presentation. Thank you for watching!