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Earth is the water

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planet. Although forty percent
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Earth's population lives within
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coastal regions, the ocean
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people everywhere. 

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Most of Earth's water is stored
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a driving force for weather

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and climate.

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The Earth's surface is warmed
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Heat, a form of energy, helps

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drive ocean and atmospheric
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The ocean absorbs and stores
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Both the atmosphere and ocean
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the atmosphere does this
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At the ocean's surface, winds
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Multiple forces

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keep the global ocean conveyor
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Thermohaline Circulation in
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Below the surface,

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deeper currents are driven by
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Mixing and upwelling in

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the ocean, transport nutrient
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to the ocean's surface.
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sustain biological productivity
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Extreme variations in

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sea surface height and sea
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affect ocean and atmospheric
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El Nino and La Nina 

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occur when changing wind
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warm and cool water in the
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Both have global 

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During either of these events
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by warm water leads to air
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This alters weather patterns by
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Shifts in rainfall affect plant
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and areas impacted by drought.

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When heat is exchanged between
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to the atmosphere, it
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For example, heat and moisture

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carried by the Gulf Stream
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An eddy is a circular

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moving body of water that spins
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Eddies play a major role
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heat and nutrients.

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Thunderstorms are a frequent
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in the tropics. Some of these
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organized into large rotating
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winds, growing into tropical
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Tropical ocean basins like the

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Caribbean and the Gulf of
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substantial heat making these
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rapid storm intensification.

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By extracting large amounts of
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from the ocean, storms can
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massive and destructive
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A driving force

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for weather and climate, 

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the ocean is essential to life
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It is the primary storehouse of
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Without the ocean our planet
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uninhabitable. 

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NASA satellites and their unique

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view from space are helping to
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vast and largely unexplored

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ocean. 

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