Thermocline Circulation
Where do warm ocean currents occur in the cycle?
What is near the coast and in warm humid applications
What causes ocean currents in the Northern Hemisphere to be deflected to the right while currents in the Southern Hemisphere to be deflected to the left?
What is the Coriolis affect
How do trade winds affect our oceans basins?
What is wind pushes surface currents from East to West depending on location in relation to the Equator
Currents redistribute_ throughout the oceans basins and around the world
what is global heat
This term describes the global circulation pattern driven by differences in temperature and salinity in the ocean, also called the "global conveyor belt."
What is thermohaline circulation?
What drives surface currents?
What is Wind driven and horizontal and vertical motions
This is the term for the horizontal movement of ocean water caused by differences in density.
What are deep ocean currents
How does rising ocean temperatures affect our ice sheets and glaciers?
What is it causes the ice sheets and glaciers to melt which rising global ocean temperature and ocean volume
Where do Equatorial currents travel?
North or South of the Equator
Travel Westward
Energy and nutrients
What is shelf ice?
What is the Antarctic sheets of ice that are flat and exceed large masses of area in the south pole.
Climate change is causing this phenomenon, which leads to warmer ocean temperatures, affecting the strength and direction of currents.
What is global warming
This is the term for a large system of circulating ocean currents, typically centered around subtropical regions.
What is a gyre
This current flows from the Gulf of Mexico toward the northeast along the eastern U.S. coast, and is responsible for transporting warm water into the North Atlantic.
What is the Gulf Stream
This term refers to the phenomenon where warm, nutrient-poor water is displaced by cooler, nutrient-rich water.
What is upwelling
Climate change is contributing to the melting of glaciers and ice sheets, which can add this to the ocean, making water less dense and affecting deep-water currents.
What is freshwater
What are the 5 subtropical gyres that circulate the oceans?
What are the North Atlantic Gyre, South Atlantic Gyre, North Pacific Gyre, South Pacific Gyre, and Indian Ocean Gyre?
What causes deep ocean currents
What is Differences in density as a result of changes in salinity and temperature in the water
Vertical and horizontal motions
What causes the buildup of pancake ice?
What is Ice crystals form directly from saltwater, the slush compiles and looks like a ancake.
Rising temperatures due to climate change are causing polar ice to melt, which affects ocean salinity and may impact this type of current.
What are density-driven (or thermohaline) currents?