Ocean Currents and Sea Surface Temperature

Aquarius - Ocean Circulation

Ocean Impacts on an El Niño Event

The Thermohaline Circulation - The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

Sea Surface Salinity Influence on Earth's Climate

Sea Surface Temperature Trends of the Gulf Stream

Learning Polar Oceanography: Ocean Currents and Climate Connections

1. A Laboratory Simulation of Ocean Surface Currents
2. Climographs ppt | lesson
3. Tracking a Drifter
4. Graphing Temperatures
5. Ground-truthing Satellite Imagery with Drifting Buoy Data

Sea Surface Temperature Trends of the Gulf Stream

Modeling the oceanic thermohaline circulation with STELLA

Gulf Stream Heat Budget and Europe's Mild Climate: A Problem-based Learning Activity

Ducks in the Flow - a book about ocean currents

Teachers, ask your students to create their own story by following the 18 frames in the story board below. Use this as an assignment in a writing class to improve your students' science and writing skills. Click the image or here to download the rest of the story board images.

Ocean Currents / Drifting Buoys (.pdf)

NOAA Research "Ocean Currents" Page

Ocean Temperatures (.pdf)

NOAA Research "Ocean Temperatures" Page

Create Climographs Using Buoy Data! (.pdf)

Learn More about Oceanography Using Buoy Data (.pdf)

How do we measure ocean currents? (video)