3.1. Ocean Currents
What is counter-clockwise?
The latitude range of easterly trade winds.
What are 0-30 degrees North and South?
The opposite of El Niño.
What is La Niña?
The primary driver of the Ocean Conveyer Belt.
What is thermohaline circulation?
The type of atmospheric pressure associated with clear skies and no precipitation.
What is high atmospheric pressure?
The direction hurricanes spin in the Southern hemisphere.
What is clockwise?
The direction pattern in which the Pacific Ocean surface currents normally flow.
What is East to West?
The cause of the Coriolis Effect.
What is the Earth's rotation?
This weather event disrupts normal wind patterns in the Pacific Ocean; sometimes reversing them.
What is El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)?
These currents occur on the open ocean.
What are surface currents?
Latitudes of low atmospheric pressure and little surface wind.
What are 0 and 60 degrees North and South?
Name of the ocean current driving thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic ocean.
Created by winds blowing along the shoreline.
What are coastal currents?
The three atmospheric convection cells.
What are the Hadley Cell, Ferrel Cell, and Polar Cells?
The minimum water temperature required for a tropical cyclone to form.
What is 27 degrees Celsius?