surface current in a sentence

Examples

1. Directly on the equator, the winds reverse twice a year due to the monsoons, and so the surface current can be either eastward or westward.
2. Wind-driven surface currents interact with these gyres and the underwater topography, such as seamounts and the edge of continental shelves, to produce downwellings and upwellings.
3. When they have had a year of good growth, they will move to the sea surface currents that transport them back to their natal river.
4. At present, OSF gives forecasts of wave height and direction, sea surface temperature, sea surface currents, mixed layer depth, and depth of 20 degree isotherm.
5. This current is gradually more salty towards the coast and right under the surface current there is a reverse current of saltier water from the coast.
6. Wind and ocean surface currents in the area may combine to funnel pumice rafts through the area between Fiji and New Caledonia on their way to Australia.
7. At radio frequencies, the fields associated with surface waves can extend thousands of wavelengths into the surrounding space, and they are often best described as surface currents.
8. The Pacific NECC is the major eastward moving surface current that transports more than 20 Sv from the West Pacific warm pool to the cooler East Pacific.
9. Thus, the habitat of Atlantic salmon is the river where they are born and the sea surface currents that are connected to that river in a circular path.
10. Water flows in both directions along the strait, from the Sea of Marmara to the Aegean via a surface current, and in the opposite direction via an undercurrent.