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Education: Analyzing Monthly Environmental Data

Analyzing monthly environmental data from the North Atlantic Ocean will help you to learn more about how the water cycle affects sea surface salinity. Your challenge is to find the data set that most closely corresponds to sea surface salinity patterns. A Data Analysis Sheet will help you keep track of your findings and respond to the Key Question for each data set.

Other Data Sets Be sure to view all five pairs of data maps before completing your investigation. GOOD LUCK!

Activity: Sea Surface Temperature vs. Sea Surface Salinity

Click the green button for monthly images!

Monthly images in PDF format: Sea Surface Temperature (1.9 MB) | Salinity (2.1 MB)

TEMPERATURE versus SALINITY
Surface temperature map Salinity map
TEMPERATURE AT SEA SURFACE Forward Button SEA SURFACE SALINITY
Temperature map legend Salinity map legend
Key Question

Questions or comments? Contact Annette deCharon, Senior Science Educator and Aquarius EPO Manager.