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Alyssa Overson
Miranda Hoyle-Dodson
Alex Chaney
Tawnya Ragan
Ocean Circulation
Ocean Circulation: Driving Factors
Temperature
Salinity
Wind, and the planet’s
rotation
Image Credits:
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a00
Ocean Circulation:
Thermohaline
Driven by temperature
and freshwater inputs
(salinity)
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Fossil-Fuels Burning
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Biological Pump
"Unit 3: Oceans." The Habitable Planet Unit 3. N.p., n.d.
Web.
<http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php?
unit=3>
"Researchers: World's Fish to Get Smaller as Oceans Warm."
Light Years RSS. N.p., 3 Oct. 2012. Web.
<http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/researchers-
worlds-fish-to-get-smaller-as-oceans-warm/>.
Oxygen Minimum Zones
Tropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, Oxygen content is declining
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PROTECT OUR OCEANSPROTECT OUR OCEANS
Bibliography:
Keeling, Ralph F., and Hernan E. Garcia. "The Change in Oceanic O2
Inventory Associated with Recent Global Warming." The Change in
Oceanic O2 Inventory Associated with Recent Global Warming. N.p., 15
Mar. 2002. Web
Latif, M., C. Böning, J. Willebrand, A. Biastoch, J. Dengg, N. Keenlyside,
U. Schweckendiek, and G. Madec. "Is the Thermohaline Circulation
Changing?" Journal of Climate 19.18 (2006): 4631. Web.
Rahmstorf, S (2003). "The concept of the thermohaline circulation".
Nature 421 (6924): 699. Web.
Spross, Jeff. "Bombshell IMF Study: United States Is World’s Number
One Fossil Fuel Subsidizer." ThinkProgress RSS. N.p., 29 Mar. 2013. Web.

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  • 3. Ocean Circulation: Driving Factors Temperature Salinity Wind, and the planet’s rotation Image Credits: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003800/a00
  • 4. Ocean Circulation: Thermohaline Driven by temperature and freshwater inputs (salinity)
  • 15. Biological Pump "Unit 3: Oceans." The Habitable Planet Unit 3. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.learner.org/courses/envsci/unit/text.php? unit=3>
  • 16. "Researchers: World's Fish to Get Smaller as Oceans Warm." Light Years RSS. N.p., 3 Oct. 2012. Web. <http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/researchers- worlds-fish-to-get-smaller-as-oceans-warm/>.
  • 18. Tropical areas of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, Oxygen content is declining
  • 21. PROTECT OUR OCEANSPROTECT OUR OCEANS Bibliography: Keeling, Ralph F., and Hernan E. Garcia. "The Change in Oceanic O2 Inventory Associated with Recent Global Warming." The Change in Oceanic O2 Inventory Associated with Recent Global Warming. N.p., 15 Mar. 2002. Web Latif, M., C. Böning, J. Willebrand, A. Biastoch, J. Dengg, N. Keenlyside, U. Schweckendiek, and G. Madec. "Is the Thermohaline Circulation Changing?" Journal of Climate 19.18 (2006): 4631. Web. Rahmstorf, S (2003). "The concept of the thermohaline circulation". Nature 421 (6924): 699. Web. Spross, Jeff. "Bombshell IMF Study: United States Is World’s Number One Fossil Fuel Subsidizer." ThinkProgress RSS. N.p., 29 Mar. 2013. Web.