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Explain how heat creates ocean currents and wind patterns ​

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Ocean Currents are cause by density differences in water masses due to temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline) variations via a process known as thermohaline circulation, and unequal heating of the earth’s surface also forms large global wind patterns
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