why is the atlantic ocean rougher than the pacific ocean?
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Insider Mole has a pretty good answer. You might add that, because the Atlantic is narrower, the effect of the Gulf Stream is more pronounced than the similar currents that move throughout the Pacific Ocean. I don't know for certain but that is what I would believe.
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atlantic ocean\n\n:> peace\n.
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the atlantic is growing, the pacific is shrinking.
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It's a combination of less sunlight & density currents.\n\nCold salty water is very dense. It sinks. This along w/ surface flow created by winds creates currents in the sea.\n\nCold water ends up on the bottom.\n\nThe amount of geothermal energy located on the ocean floor is negligible here. It only makes a difference on a local scale. The ocean floor is very deep and very large. Too much space for geothermal vents to heat.
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Oceanic crust is generally thinner since it is closer to the mantle, more dense since it is composed of mainly mafic basaltic rocks (have more ferromagnesians in them, i.e. iron) , and younger than continental crust since it is in a constant state of change near subduction zones and gets reformed sooner and more often then continental crust.
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There are a number of currents in the ocean in which the water temperature is different from the surrounding area.  The most famous of these is the Gulf Stream that brings warm water from the tropic areas north off the East Coast of the United States and then across the Atlantic to Europe.\n\nNote that this movement is clockwise if you look at it from space.  Of course, this also means that on the other side of the ocean, cold water will move south to complete the circuit.\n\nNow we go to California.  There is a cold current called the California current that brings water from the area off Alaska in the same manner.  This cold water is also full of nutrients which is why there are the kelp forest and abundant wildlife.  It moves in the same manner as the Atlantic Ocean example.\n\nHope this answers your question.
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the gulf stream makes the atlantic warmer
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The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have different heights with the highest sea surface in the Western Pacific. But don't worry about all that Pacific water rushing into the Atlantic and flooding the Texas coast.\n\nAs far as equalizing levels, this has occurred but introduces an idea that many people find hard to imagine. The difference in heights is a result of a "dynamic equilibrium". Dynamic means changing, but equilibrium means balance, which we usually think of as no change. How can this be? Think of an unchanging balance as one like you can find on a scale where you place the same weight on both sides and it will balance -- always and forever. There is no new weight added or removed, no energy added or removed. This is Static equilibrium, an unchanging balance. A dynamic equilibrium involves the balance of changes. Imagine on your scale that you have cups instead of weights. Each cup the same size and is being dripped into and overflows but it will still balance if the fluid dripping in and out balances on both sides. Here there is a dynamic equilibrium with changes in mass or weight. If we want to imagine an equilibrium that also includes energy, let's have one side of the scale have a smaller cup than the other. Water drips in and overflows, but the two sides can never balance because the two cups can never hold the same amount of water. This gets a little complicated, so hang in there. The cups can't balance each other with weight alone. The lighter cup will go up and the heavy cup will go down. You can make a dynamic equilibrium by pushing down on the lighter cup. Now you have two cups with different amounts of water that balance. Hmmm? This can only happen with the addition of energy.\n\nThis is similar to how the sea surface heights can be different -- there is a dynamic equilibrium. It is indeed affected by the rotation of the Earth which is where some of the energy used to maintain the balance comes from. More comes from the Sun and its heat. The energy acts through winds on the sea surface and currents which tend to cause water to "pile up" where currents are swift. Imagine the surface of your morning juice in its cup. If you swirl that juice, the surface is no longer 'level' but slanted (and the slant rotates with the swirl). This slant is maintained as long as you continue to swirl the cup. You have an equilibrium that requires energy. The moment you stop adding energy by swirling, the surface of the juice levels out. It is now a static system with a static equilibrium that is simple to understand.\n\nThere is a huge science project (yes, scientists do science projects too) called TOPEX/Poseidon that looks at the sea surface (and other ocean information) from orbiting satellites. And there are oceanographers who specialize in studying the sea surface and what causes it to be different from flat. Some of this information is available on the Internet including really cool pictures made from satellite information.
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At dusk, the land has begun to cool but the ocean, being water, retains heat longer than the land does.  The temperature differential causes a wind to blow out toward the ocean due to the rising warm air over the ocean.  This wind blows the clouds out into their thin and whispy shape.
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the atlantic ocean is your best shot. the mediterranean isn't that good.
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The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than the Indian Ocean, Southern Ocean, and Arctic Ocean).\n\nTotal Area: total: 76.762 million sq km\n\nIt is slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US\n\nlowest point: Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m \nhighest point: sea level 0 m\n\nExtent and Seas\n\nThe Atlantic Ocean extends in an S shape from the arctic to the antarctic regions between North and South America on the west and Europe and Africa on the east. It is connected with the Arctic Ocean by the Greenland Sea and Smith Sound; with the Pacific Ocean by Drake Passage, the Straits of Magellan, and the Panama Canal; and with the Indian Ocean by the Suez Canal and the expanse between Africa and Antarctica. The shortest distance across the Atlantic Ocean (c.1,600 mi/2,575 km) is between SW Senegal, W Africa, and NE Brazil, E South America. The principal arms of the Atlantic Ocean are Hudson and Baffin bays, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea in the west; the Baltic, North, Mediterranean, and Black seas in the east; and the Weddell Sea in the south. More large rivers, including the Mississippi, the Congo, and the Amazon, drain into the Atlantic than into any other ocean.\n\nOcean Floor\n\nThe floor of the Atlantic has an average depth of c.12,000 ft (3,660 m). It is separated from that of the Arctic Ocean by a submarine ridge extending from SE Greenland to N Scotland; part of the floor (c.3,000 ft/910 m deep) is known as “telegraph plateau” because of the network of cables laid there. A shallow submarine ridge across the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Mediterranean basin from the Atlantic and limits the exchange of water between the two bodies. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (c.300–600 mi/480–970 km wide), a submarine mountain range extending c.10,000 mi (16,100 km) from Iceland to near the Antarctic Circle, generally follows the trend of the coastlines of the continents. It rises to an average height of c.10,000 ft (3,050 m), and a few peaks emerge as islands. The ridge, which is the center of volcanic activity and earthquakes, has a great rift that is constantly widening (see seafloor spreading) and filling with molten rock from the earth's interior. As a result the Western Hemisphere and Europe and Africa are moving away from each other. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge divides the floor of the Atlantic Ocean into eastern and western sections that are composed of a series of deep-sea basins (abyssal plains). The greatest depth (c.28,000 ft/8,530 m) is the Milwaukee Deep, in the Puerto Rico Trench, N of Puerto Rico. Scientific knowledge of the ocean floor dates from the Challenger expedition (1872–76).
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Salinity and the latitude is related because of the thermohaline circulation of the ocean waters. This means that the waters circulated around ocean and are driven by density (not temperature). The thermohaline circulation means that the are denser waters at high latitude due to high evaporation rates found in the tropics. Hope that helps
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Oceanic currents are part of the global system of circulation that distributes the Sun's energy (including warmth) in the planet. Just like the wind currents transport warmer and colder air masses, oceanic currents distribute colder water from the poles to lower latitudes (cold currents are usually deep because cold water sinks under warmer water masses), and warm water from intertropical areas gets transported to higher latitudes (surface currents). \nOceanic currents also differ in their salinity (salt concentration) levels, which is also very important for aquatic organisms as well as for the global circulation, because salinity affects the freezing point of water. Therefore, oceanic currents affect the normal formation of ice, which also affects neighboring land masses and in turn alters the global circulation. \n\nThe influence of oceanic currents is especially important in coastal areas, but the amounts of energy transported by oceanic currents equals the transport by wind currents, and can affect temperature/precipitation balances throughout the world. El Niño (it's complete name is ENSO - El Niño Southern Oscillation) is a good example of the way a change in an oceanic current can alter land climate, e.g. causing droughts.\nAnother example is the Gulf Stream which "warms up" the North Atlantic Ocean and northeaster Europe.\n\nAbout the El Niño-La Niña cycle (ENSO):\nhttp://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/
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near the equator in the an ocean ussualy
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the ocean is like the wind it has layers of different kinds of salinity of water and tempratures.it has currents going one way and the deeper you go they go an other way some are slow while others can move at highway speeds.it is what keeps the oceans stired up .hot water on the top while you have very cold dense water on the bottom,the heat of the earth is the engine of life
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the ocean is salty as it contains water colected from different sources such as rivers which bring with them different types of mineral salts before they mingle with the ocean.
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The Pacific Ocean (from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan) is the world's largest body of water