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Water and Seawater Chapter 3
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Water Molecules
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Water has three states ICE GAS WATER
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Ice Floats
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Water carries heat energy
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Water is a powerful solvent.
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Seawater
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Oceans pick up dissolved solids from a variety of sources
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A Niskin Bottle in action Seawater sampling
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Red Sea Elevated Salinity
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Atlantic Ocean at mouth of Amazon River Baltic Sea Low Salinities
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Temperature, Salinity and Density
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String of water bottles
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A rosette of sampling bottles and other instruments
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Water Column profile for temperature
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19 th Century Oceanography Chart from HMS Challenger Expedition
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Satellite Imagery Ocean surface temperatures – easier than taking millions of Niskin samples (assuming you have satellite).
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Seawater and Dissolved Gases
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Oxygen Carbon dioxide Nitrogen
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Pressure and water depth
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Density and Ocean Layering
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Water Column Profiles
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Temperature profiles vary with latitude
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Thermohaline Circulation
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Three-layered ocean
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Solar energy generate movement of air masses
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Hadley Cells
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Prevailing winds
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Major oceanic surface currents
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Thermohaline Circulation
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Wave Structure
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Wave structure
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Tides
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Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis)
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Tides Two forces pull at the water
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Tides
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The Earth rotates through the bulges generated by centrifugal and gravitational forces
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Tides Semidiurnal
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Mixed Semidiurnal Tides
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Diurnal Tides
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