Climate change and its impact's on ocean circulation

SLO-2 by Robert medina

Ocean circulation, what is it and how does that effect us.

Ocean circulation doesn't just have a hand in our world it has an entire arm within it. Ocean circulation can be conceptually divided into two main components: a fast and energetic wind-driven surface circulation, and a slow and large density-driven circulation which dominates the deep sea. Or in a nut shell, wind circulation and ocean water circulations which helps to distribute heat. With the wind circulation, hot winds rise up to their respective pole (be it north or south) and due to the coolness of the glaciers & its waters the air cools down which causes it to sink to the water then over time it heats up and it cycles around which helps in distribution of heat.

Due to climate change leading to an increase in the oceans water temp, evaporation of water, and a number of sea ice & glaciers melting this could cause a rapid influx of warm freshwater onto the ocean's surface. This then can cause the formation of sea ice to slow down which in turn causes cold salty ice water’s sinking to slow down as well. These events could lead to a possible slowing down or even total halt of the ocean conveyor belt, which in tandem causes even more drastic global climate change due to said shift. To go even further with this climate change has even been causing the oceans currents to speed up.

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