Thermohaline Currents
Channel: Earth Rocks!
Date: 2018-10-22

For an introductory college-level oceanography class. Review of the basic causes and behaviors of density-driven currents. 

**This video comes near the middle of the semester, so there may be terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer to the Oceanography playlist on the Earth Rocks! YouTube Channel.

Content within this video is based on information available in any standard introductory college oceanography textbook, such as Essentials of Oceanography -- Trujillo and Thurman – Pearson Publishing.

Ocean Circulation Series:
Part 1: Thermohaline Currents
Part 2: Surface Currents
Part 3: Ocean Mixing & Pollution
Part 4: ENSO

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