Oceans. Vertical ocean temperature profile Plimsoll line.

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

WET

Longitude

Time

Pacific Sea Surface Temperatures 2001-2003

La Niña

Normal

El Niño

Eastern coastal upwelling

El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

DRY

WET

WET

El Niño Rainfall Anomalies Nov 2002-Jan 2003

North Atlantic Oscillation

North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)

NAO Weather

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