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Outcome: Explain how climate variations can induce changes in the global ocean circulation.
Ocean Motion: Ocean Surface Currents (OSCAR)
Grade level: 9-12
Theme: climate
Tool: http://oceanmotion.org/html/resources/oscar.htm

This data visualizer gives access to the following global ocean surface current behaviors between 1992 and 2008: current speed, current direction, current convergence, and current vorticity as well as the anomaly values for each.