Link list Oceans and Ocean currents

Exploring the Ocean 
 

The Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton presents several projects and materials concerning how the oceans can be explored by teachers and pupils in the classroom
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/schools.php
 

Texas A&M University provides an excellent online textbook on oceanography. Here you can find material related to nearly all questions concerning the oceans and water on Earth:
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/
oceanography-book/contents2.htm
 

Water distribution on Earth
 

The website of the US Geological Survey shows on an overview website in a single diagram how water is distributed on Earth.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/waterdistribution.html
 
An overview of the water cycle, water distribution and much more information about water on Earth is provided on the website of Alberta Environment:
http://www3.gov.ab.ca/env/water/GWSW/quantity/
learn/what/HC_Hydrocycle/HC1_what_is.html
 

Energy storage in the ocean
 

A site on ocean.com explains in an illustrated interview how the oceans work as heat traps and store more and more energy.
http://www.ocean.com/article.asp?
locationid=1&resourceid=5117&ProdId=&
CatId=5&TabID=&SubTabID=

(Please copy the link to your browser!)

Sea breeze and land breeze
 

NOAA gives a basic explanation how sea breeze and land breeze work:
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/ocean/
seabreezes.htm

Sea breezes have some importance for sailors, that’s why they are also explained on sailing websites:
http://www.winningwind.com/seabreeze.html
 
Several pages of teaching and learning material at university level are published on the website of Texas A&M University
http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/ATMO151/tut/
seabr/seabreezemain.html
 

Global ocean circulation
  

A brief introduction to the global ocean circulation is given on this ESPERE website:
http://www.atmosphere.mpg.de/enid/1vc.html
 
NOAA also provides a nice map, where you can locate each ocean current separately: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/
ocean/currents_max.htm
 

For a detailed view of the ocean circulation, the following lecture of (Univ. of Berkeley) is recommended: www.atmos.berkeley.edu/~jchiang/Class/Fall05/
Geog142/geog142_12-1.pdf
(PDF - longer download time,  7.7 MB)
 

Climate change impacts
 

A page from World Resources Institute gives a nice comprehensive overview of what impacts climate change related changes in the ocean-ice system have on us.
http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/167

Ecosystem impacts are nicely explained on a website from the German Gov. Advisory Board.
http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en/
wbgu_sn2006_en_voll_2.html
 

Good bye Gulf Stream?
 
Many articles can be found online about the North Atlantic Ocean currents. Not all of them give a correct or a full view of the actual scientific knowledge. You may check for completion of the explanations given in the background part of this topic a few articles in the web:
from the International Polar Foundation
http://www.sciencepoles.org/index.php?s=2&rs=home&uid=468&lg=en
from Woolly Days
http://nebuchadnezzarwoollyd.blogspot.com/2007/05/gulf-stream-out-of-circulation.html
Magazine on European Research:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/rtdinfo/special_pol/04/print_article_2603_en.html