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What is the percentage mass of oceans?
the percentage mass of the oceans in our world is about 71%
What five oceans are salt?
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic & Southern
What is the largest reservoir of the water cycle?
The oceans. 97% of earth's water is in the oceans.
What is the Largest body of water on earth?
The Pacific Ocean.
Do oceans affect weather?
This question is the same with the question:How do the oceans affect Earth?Relationship of the Ocean and the AtmosphereThe atmosphere affects the oceans and is in turn influenced by them. The action of winds blowing over the ocean surface creates waves and the great current systems of the oceans. When winds are strong enough to produce spray and whitecaps, tiny droplets of ocean water are thrown up into the atmosphere where some evaporate, leaving microscopic grains of salt buoyed by the turbulence of the air. These tiny particles may become nuclei for the condensation of water vapor to form fogs and clouds.In turn, the oceans act upon the atmosphere-in ways not clearly understood-to influence and modify the world's climate and weather systems. When water evaporates, heat is removed from the oceans and stored in the atmosphere by the molecules of water vapor. When condensation occurs, this stored heat is released to the atmosphere to develop the mechanical energy of its motion. The atmosphere obtains nearly half of its energy for circulation from the condensation of evaporated ocean water.Because the oceans have an extremely high thermal capacity when compared to the atmosphere, the ocean temperatures fluctuate seasonally much less than the atmospheric temperature. For the same reason, when air blows over the water, its temperature tends to come to the temperature of the water rather than vice versa. Thus maritime climates are generally less variable than regions in the interiors of the continents.The relationships are not simple. The pattern of atmospheric circulation largely determines the pattern of oceanic surface circulation, which in turn determines the location and amount of heat that is released to the atmosphere. Also, the pattern of atmospheric circulation determines in part the location of clouds, which influences the locations of heating of the ocean surface.Currents and Ocean CirculationSurface CirculationThe surface circulation of the oceans is intimately tied to the prevailing wind circulation of the atmosphere. As the planetary winds flow across the water, frictional stresses are set up which push huge rivers of water in their path. The general pattern of these surface currents is a nearly closed system of currents, called gyres, which are approximately centered on the horse latitudes (about 30° latitude in both hemispheres). Major circulation of water in these gyres is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. In the North Pacific and North Atlantic oceans, smaller counterclockwise gyres are developed partly due to the presence of the continents. These are centered on about 50°N lat. The most dominant current in the Southern Ocean is the West Wind Drift, which circles Antarctica in an easterly direction. The northern and southern hemispheric gyres are divided by an eastward flowing equatorial countercurrent, which essentially follows the belt of the doldrums. This countercurrent is caused by the return flow of water piled up along the eastward portion of the equatorial seas, and its return flow is uninhibited by the weak and erratic winds of the doldrums. Analysis of current records shows that a number of major currents, such as the Gulf Stream, have strong fast-moving currents beneath them trending in the opposite direction to the surface current. Such undercurrents, or countercurrents, appear to be as important and pervasive as the surface currents. In 1952 the Cromwell current was found flowing eastward beneath the south equatorial current of the Pacific. In 1961 a similar current was discovered in the AtlanticThermohaline CirculationThermohaline circulation refers to the deepwater circulation of the oceans and is primarily caused by differences in density between the waters of different regions. It is mainly a convection process where cold, dense water formed in the polar regions sinks and flows slowly toward the equator. Most of the deep water acquires its characteristics in the Antarctic region and in the Norwegian Sea. Antarctic bottom water is the densest and coldest water in the ocean depths. It forms and sinks just off the continental slope of Antarctica and drifts slowly along the bottom as far as the middle North Atlantic Ocean, where it merges with other water. The circulation of ocean waters is vitally important in dispersing heat energy around the globe. In general, heat flows toward the poles in the surface currents, while the displaced cold water flows toward the equator in deeper ocean layers.I hope this answers your question.
What is another name for thermohaline?
Another name for thermohaline circulation is the ocean conveyor belt. This circulation pattern involves the movement of water around the world's oceans based on differences in temperature and salinity.
What do geographers call the circulation of water through the Earth crust oceans and atmosphere?
Geographers refer to the circulation of water through the Earth's crust, oceans, and atmosphere as the "hydrological cycle" or "water cycle."
What is constant circulation of water from the atmosphere and oceans and back again?
Water cycle
Why did the oceans become shallower?
The oceans became shallower as part of the effects of global warming. The climate became drier and this has forced water to evaporate from the oceans.
What effects do ocean currents have on the ocean?
they change the oceans temperature.
What is the difference between a poleward moving current and a equatorward moving ocean current?
The interaction between the oceans surface and the circulation of the lower atmosphere is the primary cause of the surface currents in the oceans. A current generally refers to the horizontal movement of water. The direction, speed, and the temperature of the water masses moved by the ocean currents play an important role in climatology by transporting heat energy. Currents may be small-scale, transient features, resulting from seasonal or local effects or large-scale, permanent features, covering vast portions of the oceans, resulting from atmospheric circulation patterns
What are the Astronomical Effects on the Oceans?
The only astronomical effects on the Oceans would be Tides, which put simply would read like this.'Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the rotation of the Earth and the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun.'
The coriolis effect influences oceans currents by?
The Coriolis effect causes ocean currents to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This effect is a result of the Earth's rotation and leads to the formation of large-scale circulation patterns in the oceans. The Coriolis effect plays a significant role in shaping global ocean circulation systems.
Is the oceanic and atmospheric circulation the reason for earth's energy imbalance?
No, the Earth does not have an energy imbalance, the energy affecting the Earth is mainly Sunlight and geothermal energy. The circulation of the oceans and atmosphere is a means by which these energies are distributed round the planet.
how to represent the diffusion and at least 2 effects of water in oceans?
Water duh🤒😂
How do oceans oceans effect us?
Oceans effects us by a lot of ways 1)U can drown in it 2)it have disease in it or salt or not clean water so once u drink it to ur body u can easily get sick
Do lakes have tides, and if so, how do they compare to the tides in oceans?
No, lakes do not have tides like oceans do. Tides in oceans are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and sun, which create the rise and fall of water levels. Lakes, being smaller bodies of water, do not experience the same tidal effects as oceans.
