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Currents. Global Wind Pattern Development see text fig. 7-10 p. 204.

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1 Currents

2 Global Wind Pattern Development see text fig. 7-10 p. 204

3 Coriolis effect University of Illinois Department of Atmospheric Sciences (ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/ guides/mtr/fw/crls.rxml) northern hemisphere southern hemisphere (earthsci.terc.edu/content/visualizations/es1904/es1904page01.cfm?chapter_no=19) Anchorage to Miami Tierra del Fuego to Rio de Janeiro

4 Global weather: Jan. 15 -25, 2005 (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/composites.html; link on course web site)http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/composites.html

5 Hurricane Floyd (1999) Satellite animation (http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/coriolis/ hurricanestext.html) The eye of Hurricane Floyd up close (http://www.hurricanehunters.com)

6 Relations between atmospheric and ocean surface currents see text figs. 8-3 & 8-4 p. 235-35

7 Animation of wind-driven upwelling (http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010019/)

8 El Nino / La Nina- The Basics see text fig. 8-18 p. 249

9 (www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html/) normal pattern ‘El Nino’ pattern returning to normal (http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/index.shtml) Surface temperature (last 3 years) Tropical Pacific seawater temperature depth profiles


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