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<B><strong>Antarctic Ocean: </strong></U></P > <P align="justify" ></B>Ocean surrounds continent circumpolar circulation<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">ABW - 35 degrees North<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Artic Ocean (60 degrees North)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Low depth - average 3/4 of a mile<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Salinity less than 3.0%<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Sea Ice 5-9 feet thick<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Max 15 feet<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Ice drifts NW<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">(7000 mi in 3 years)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Saline: salt<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Thermal: Heat or cold<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Equilibrium of Sea H2O more dense than fresh<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Cold H20 more dense than warm<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Saltier and colder sinks<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Vertical currents: Upwelling<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">(Cold off) Peru, Calif, West Africa,<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Based on convergence or divergence<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Overturn: heavy surface H2O sinks<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Artic Surface H20 - artic surface H20, Atlantic H2O, Artic Deep H2O<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Surface H20: 32-33% (Norwegian Fjord and Islands)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">29.0% + River runoff ft in snow melt<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Deep 3-4 degrees Celsius 75-400 meters<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Sub-Antarctic water: South of subtropics<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Caribbean (Krill and squid): Relationship to whales<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">52 degrees south to 53 degrees south<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Slight analogue in North Hemisphere<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Low salinity (circumpolar)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Not too well defined<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Saline Current<FONT size="+1"> <br> <FONT size="+1" color="#000000"></B>North Pacific & Subartic ocean<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Temperature at 2 degrees to 4 Celsius at. 32.0% salinity<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Off of California<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Coast (California Current)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Pacific Central H2O<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Similar to Atlantic Circulation<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">At 16 degrees Celsius has lava salinity 35.6 to 36%<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">No Pacific lowest salinity<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Ice melt & River Flow<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Equatorial Pacific H2O<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Broad Belt (20 degrees north to 20 degrees south)<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Temperature at 15 degrees Celsius to 35 Salinity<FONT size="+1"> </P ><P align="justify" ><FONT size="+1">Temperature at 8 degrees Celsius to 34.6 Salinity<FONT size="+1">
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