Thermohaline Currents
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Thermohaline currents around the world.
Thermohaline current is often refured to as the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt. Thermohaline is ocean currents like deep water currents and surface currents. Thermohaline is part of that ocean circulation which is driven by density diffrences. Sea water density depends on temperature and salinity, which creates the name thermo-haline. Thermo meaning temperature and haline meaning salinity. What drives the thermohaline currents is high-latitude cooling. The climate effect of the thermohaline current is of heat transfer of this circulation. Sediment data document that the thermohaline current has undergone major changes in climate history. The most dramatic climate events recorded in Greenland. Global warming can effect the thermohaline in two ways: surface warming and suface freshening, both reducing the density of high-latitude surface waters inhibiting deep water formation.