Ocean Circulation - Ocean & Climate Platform

Ocean circulation is a key regulator of climate by storing and transporting heat, carbon, nutrients and freshwater all around the world . Complex and diverse mechanisms interact with one another to produce this circulation and define its properties...

Berkeley - Ocean Circulation

The ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface and is constantly in motion. Large masses of water that move together, called ocean currents, transport heat, marine organisms, nutrients, dissolved gasses such as carbon dioxide and oxygen, and pollutants all over the world. Climate and ecosystems everywhere on Earth, even those far from the ocean, are affected by the ocean circulation...

Britannica - Ocean Circulation

Ocean circulation derives its energy at the sea surface from two sources that define two circulation types: (1) wind-driven circulation forced by wind stress on the sea surface, inducing a momentum exchange, and (2) thermohaline circulation driven by the variations in water density imposed at the sea surface by exchange of ocean heat and water with the atmosphere, inducing a buoyancy exchange...