Random Facts
How many main layers are there in the ocean?
3
What are the 2 types of turbulences?
macroturbulence and microturbulence
The ocean stores >___% of Earth’s excess heat, mostly in the upper ocean, the deep ocean is harder to measure.
90
about 70%
What spreads heat and and properties over long distances?
Eddies
What causes thermosteric sea levels to rise?
warming water expands
What is the greenhouse effect?
It traps some outgoing radiation and helps maintain liquid water and habitable surface temperatures
What helps ocean layers cross?
internal waves
True or False: The ocean holds heat for a short amount of time.
False
Where is most of the added heat in the ocean (how many km and its position)?
Top 4 km
Countless swirls also carry _____, _____, _____, and other tracers and are crucial for transport.
heat, carbon, oxygen
1/3 amount of sea level rising comes from ____.
expansion
Heat taken up in oceans is transported across ___.
Basins
Winds push the ocean’s surface, and because Earth rotates, they curve, creating big rotating ____ that move warm water poleward and back.
gyres
2/3 amount of sea level rising comes from _____.
land ice + other inputs