1-10: Ocean Structure and Circulation Images

Figure 1 - Major ocean currents.

Figure 2 - Gulf stream temperature. NASA.

Figure 3 - Ocean Flow

Figure 4 - Idealized relation of the polar front to the wind and pressure belts of the world

Figure 5 - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt (From IPCC, 2001)

Figure 6 - Schematic flow lines for abysal circulation Adapted from Stommel, H., Deep Sea Research 1958.

Figure 7 - Density of Water

Figure 8 - Strait of Gibraltar

Figure 9 - Average Annual Precipitation -Tropical Pacific Ocean

Figure 10 - Schematic Temperature Distributions

Figure 11 - Slope of Sea Surface

Figure 12 - Essential nutrients for ocean plants

. Figure 13 - Euphotic and Aphotic Zones.

Figure 14 - Biological activity in the oceans of the northern hemisphere American Scientist July/Aug 1990. Permission granted by Sigma, Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

Figure 15 - Biological activity in the oceans of the southern hemisphere American Scientist July/Aug 1990. Permission granted by Sigma, Xi, The Scientific Research Society.

Figure 16 - Mean near-surface phytoplankton pigment concentrations. NASA.

Figure 17 - ATLAS Mooring

Figure 18 - TOGA In Situ Ocean Observing System

Figure 19 - TAO Array


Related Class Images

Sea-surface temperatures for September 1994.

Flows of carbon in the world's oceans. American Scientist, 78, 316 (1990).
Permission granted by Sigma Xi,The Scientific Research Society.

Arctic pack-ice motion. NASA.

Southern ocean circulation. Natural History, Mar ,1990.

Projected temperature changes after gradual CO2 increase. Natural History, Mar ,1990.

Seasonal Baja ocean color. NASA.

West coast upwelling. NASA.

Example of sea surface temperature... NASA.

Global concentration of phytoplankton. NASA.