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9/7 - Underway

9/8 - To Understand an Ocean

9/9 - Ocean Music

9/10 - Arctic Fizzo

9/11 - How To Measure an Ocean

9/12 - U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy

9/13 - Ice

9/15 - Breathing In, Breathing Out

9/16 - Discovering Ice

9/17 - CTDs, ADCPs, and All That Jazz

9/18 - Ice Liberty

9/19 - The Meaning of Ice

9/20 - To Follow the Water

9/21 - Owners of the Ice

9/22 - Them to Starboard, Us to Port

9/23 - An Ending

Image : To Understand an Ocean, a Beginning

A global system of currents, often called the “ocean conveyor,” carries warm surface waters from the tropics northward. At high latitudes, the waters cool, releasing heat to the atmosphere and moderating wintertime climate in the North Atlantic region. The colder (and denser) waters sink and flow southward in the deep ocean to keep the conveyor moving. (Illustration by Jack Cook, WHOI)

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Last updated: September 28, 2010