Thermohaline Circulation
Salinity Cross Section (Pacific Ocean)
Potential Temperature in Atlantic Ocean
Salinity Atlantic Ocean
Ocean’s Conveyor Belt Circulation Schematic
Formation Regions of Deep and Intermediate
Waters
Antarctic Circumpola
r Current
Circulation of Deep Waters in Southern Ocean
Heat Transport
Heat Transport by the oceans
Temperature as a function of latitude
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“… hypothesis concerning quasi constant total meridional heat fluxand opposite fluctuations of its oceanic and atmospheric parts,
doesexplain the possibility of relatively big variations in climate without
havingrecourse to primary solar changes.” (Bjerknes, 1964)
Hazelger, 2008
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