Oceans. Vertical ocean temperature profile Plimsoll line.

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Oceans

Vertical ocean temperature profile Plimsoll line

Sea Surface Temperatures

Circulation within an ocean basin

Surface Ocean Currents

Gulf Stream

Ocean (Thermohaline) Conveyor Cold and salty water sink relative to warm fresher water, form slow moving current of cold salty bottom water.

Rainfall on Christmas Island (Central Pacific) Pressure in Darwin (Australia) Sea surface temperature (Eastern Pacific)

El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) DRY WET

Eastern coastal upwelling

El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) DRY WET

El Niño Rainfall Anomalies Nov 2002-Jan 2003

North Atlantic Oscillation

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

NAO Weather + -

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