Oceanography, Part 1
i hate science and oceanography..but basically this is SECTION 1 OF CHAPTER 21
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- North Atlantic Deep Water
- Flows southward below the Gulf Stream
- deep currents
- a streamlike movement of water in the deep ocean
- Turbidity Currents
- Currents caused by an underwater landslide
- Equatorial Currents
- move westward
- Warm Currents
- On the warm side of gyres
- Wind Source
- Uneven heating of the atmosphere
- Surface Current Source
- Powered by surface winds
- Criteria for density
- low temperature and high salinity
- monsoon
- a seasonal wind or weather
- Equatorial Countercurrent
- Moves eastward between two Equatorial Currents
- Antarctic Bottom Water
- Densest and coldest water in the world
- Cold Currents
- On the east side of the gyre
- North Atlantic Deep Water Location
- North Atlantic, south of Greenland
- Gulf Stream
- A warm northward current along the coast of North America
- gyre
- a huge circle of moving ocean water
- El Nino
- when water of Pacific Ocean becomes unusually warm
- Equatorial Currents Locations
- warm equatorial currents are in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans