The animation of ocean circulation and currents are easy to follow.
Additional Prerequisites
Students should know what ocean salinity means.
In the Related URLs section, the additional visualizations link is broken.
Differentiation
Students can explore definitions of various terms including water cycle, weather and climate, technology, and societal applications.
Students can do further research on the Aquarius mission overview and summarize how the data can help scientists improve the accuracy of their climate models.
Other resources related to these topics include this video about thermohaline circulation and this video about why oceans circulate.
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