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Antarctica: Ocean current map/diagram #75

Closed alykat closed 1 year ago

alykat commented 1 year ago

Map animation or diagram showing flow of major ocean currents from West Antarctica up to Gulf of Mexico

key priority (Part of the same ocean-currents treatment from the Greenland story #70? Or, if we want it to be easier, this could be a much simpler "big arrows on a map" thing. It only has one variable: direction. No temperature or 3D sinking/rising water)

references: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Thermohaline_circulation.svg https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07052018/atlantic-ocean-circulation-slowing-climate-change-heat-temperature-rainfall-fish-why-you-should-care/ https://insideclimatenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Thermohaline-Circulation-1058px.png