Moving the Waters - Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets - page 98

Heat release
to atmosphere

Atlantic
Ocean

Pacic Ocean

Indian Ocean

Heat release
to atmosphere

Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

fig. 8. The ocean conveyor begins in the North Atlantic, where warm water from the Gulf Stream heats the atmosphere
in the cold northern latitudes. This loss of heat to the atmosphere makes the water cooler and denser, causing it to sink to