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Currents

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Global Wind Pattern Development

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Coriolis effect

University of Illinois Department of

Atmospheric Sciences (ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/

guides/mtr/fw/crls.rxml)

northern hemispherenorthern hemisphere southern hemispheresouthern hemisphere(earthsci.terc.edu/content/visualizations/es1904/es1904page01.cfm?chapter_no=19)

Anchorage to MiamiAnchorage to Miami Tierra del Fuego to Rio de JaneiroTierra del Fuego to Rio de Janeiro

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Global weather: Jan. 15 -25, 2005

(http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/composites.html; link on course web site)

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Hurricane Floyd (1999)

Satellite animation (http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/coriolis/

hurricanestext.html)

The eye of Hurricane Floyd up close (http://www.hurricanehunters.com)

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Relations between atmospheric and ocean surface currents

see text figs. 8-3 & 8-4 p. 235-35

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Animation of wind-driven upwelling

(http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010000/a010019/)

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El Nino / La Nina- The Basics

see text fig. 8-18 p. 249

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(www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/elnino/nino-home.html/)

normal patternnormal pattern ‘‘El Nino’ patternEl Nino’ pattern

returning to normalreturning to normal

(http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/index.shtml)Surface temperature (last 3 years)Surface temperature (last 3 years)

Tropical Pacific seawater temperature depth profiles