ocean current
C602
concept
An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater driven by factors such as wind, Earth's rotation, temperature, and salinity differences, which redistributes heat, nutrients, and organisms across the world's oceans.
Aliases (29)
- surface current ×12
- warm current ×9
- western boundary current ×8
- cold current ×7
- physical oceanographic feature ×7
- boundary current ×4
- eastern boundary current ×4
- ocean gyre ×4
- oceanic gyre ×3
- oceanographic region ×3
- subtropical gyre ×3
- coastal current ×2
- ocean circulation system ×2
- water mass ×2
- Arctic current ×1
- Atlantic water inflow ×1
- Pacific Ocean current ×1
- circumpolar current ×1
- climate system component ×1
- cold ocean current ×1
- component of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ×1
- component of global ocean circulation ×1
- component of the global ocean circulation ×1
- deep western boundary current ×1
- geophysical fluid feature ×1
- ocean current system ×1
- seasonally reversing current ×1
- thermohaline circulation component ×1
- western boundary current extension ×1
Instances (128)
- Tsushima Current
- Liman Current
- North Equatorial Current (regional)
- Azores Current
- Antarctic Circumpolar Current
- Japan Current
- Kuroshio Extension
- North Pacific Gyre ("ocean gyre")
- North Pacific Current
- South Pacific Gyre ("oceanic gyre")
- North Atlantic Deep Water ("water mass")
- Antarctic Bottom Water ("water mass")
- Canary Current
- Labrador Current
- Deep Western Boundary Current
- South Equatorial Current
- Angola Current
- South Atlantic subtropical gyre ("oceanic gyre")
- Kuroshio Current
- Equatorial Countercurrent
- Alaska Current
- Irish Coastal Current ("coastal current")
- Benguela Current
- Brazil–Malvinas Confluence ("oceanographic region")
- Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ("ocean circulation system")
- Malvinas Current
- Philippine Sea gyre ("ocean gyre")
- Indian Monsoon Current
- Indian Ocean subtropical gyre ("oceanic gyre")
- Agulhas Current
- West Australian Current
- Somali Current
- Leeuwin Current
- Tasman Front ("boundary current")
- EAC
- the Screaming Sixties ("oceanographic region")
- Loop Current
- Antilles Current
- North Atlantic subtropical gyre ("ocean gyre")
- named after Liman Bay region of the Russian Far East
- Gulf Stream
- Humboldt Current
- East Greenland Current
- West Spitsbergen Current
- Jan Mayen Current
- Brazil Current
- California Current
- Beaufort Gyre ("ocean gyre")
- North Atlantic Equatorial Current
- East Australian Current
- Pacific sector ("oceanographic region")
- Florida Current
- ACC
- West Wind Drift
- Subantarctic Front ("physical oceanographic feature")