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
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)