Equatorial waters warmer than higher latitude waters surface layers warmer than deeper layers This sets up an enormous circulation network Major currents are shaped by: Temperature differences (driven mostly by tilt of earth's axis) Prevailing wind patterns interacting with the surface waters (again driven mostly by tilt of earth's axis) the rotation of the earth the Coriolis Force shorelines of continental masses Tapping the Current for Energy: Gulf current has 1000 times the flow of the Mississippi River(
(higher latitude waters; surface; ) (deeper layers; sets up; This) (wind patterns interacting with the surface waters; driven mostly; by tilt of earth's axis; T:again) (an enormous circulation network Major currents; are shaped; by: Temperature differences) (continental masses; Tapping; the Current for Energy) (Gulf current; has; 1000 times the flow of the Mississippi River)
higher latitude waters deeper layers wind patterns interacting with the surface waters an enormous circulation network Major currents continental masses Gulf current
surface sets up driven mostly are shaped Tapping has
This
by tilt of earth's axis T:again
by: Temperature differences
the Current for Energy
1000 times the flow of the Mississippi River