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What Drives Ocean Currents?
Students will gain an understanding of how water density and salinity affect ocean...
Wed, 11/11/2020 - 10:14
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A Rip Current On the Shore
Not all currents occur at such a large scale. Individual beaches may have rip...
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The Salt Pans
The Mediterranean is super salty due to intense evaporation. Here, locals in...
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Low Tide
As the tide recedes moored boats are left to sit in the muddy sand. ...
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The Ekman Spiral
As wind blows over the surface layer of water, friction between the two pulls the...
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Surface Currents
This is a map ocean surface currents from 1877. ...
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Thermohaline Circulation Map
Differences in temperature and salinity drive deep ocean currents. ...
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Wind Patterns Drive Currents
The major wind patterns drive oceanic currents. ...
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Visualizing Currents
Currents on the ocean surface are driven by wind, temperature, gravity, and the...
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Currents, Waves, and Tides
Looking toward the sea from land, it may appear that the ocean is a stagnant place....
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A Century of Whales at the Smithsonian
Whales have been at the heart of Smithsonian research since 1850, when Spencer...
April 2019
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Ocean Currents: Motion in the Ocean
When you look underwater, what is making the seagrass wave in the water? The answer...
Wed, 01/24/2018 - 09:53