GEG 4129 Lecture 2: onenote2

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEG 4129
• Professor: conrad

Document Summary

Common water- the atlantic and antarctic water sinking downwards. The difference between the atlantic and pacific =lack of arctic water sinking down ward in the pacific ocean, Whenever you have a high pressure sell over the atlantic leading to clockwise flow of the currents, this is called the atlantic girer. The golf stream is a part of this, the north atlantic drift, the canary and the n. equator as sort of a return flow: the golf stream a strong current, important for bringing warm water northward. Pacific oceans- northward transports from the equator to the poles. The atlantic northwards transport, and transport into the arctic. The arctic is getting from the atlantic and not from the pacific. The atlantic and indian- evap is greater than precip. The arctic and pacific precip is greater than evap. Sea surface temepratures: 4 spots to look at. As you go deeper into the ocean the carbonate tends to dissolve.