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ocean circulation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - drives both atmospheric winds and ocean currents
    - - drives circulation
  - - - Southern Hemisphere warming
      - massive ecosystem shifts
      - major sea-level rise
    - - freshwater from ice melt
      - decreasing temperature difference between the tropics and the poles
    - - a disruption in ocean circulation caused North Atlantic temperatures to drop 5°C within a single decade
  - - - ocean absorbs over 90% of excess heat generated by anthropogenic CO2
    - - ocean stores >98% of Earth’s CO₂ and absorbs ~25% of annual anthropogenic CO₂ emissions
  - - - Agulhas Current → mild climate + high productivity
    - - rising temperature, ocean acidification and deoxygenation