surface current in a sentence
Examples
- The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regime associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regime.
- That means heavy south winds, which set up a near-shore surface current in this area called the Davidson Current.
- Downwelling occurs in areas such as in the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic where several surface currents meet.
- There is a surface current inwards in the eastern channel, but a strong undercurrent outwards in the western channel.
- The mechanism for this cooling is explained by the influence of the Papagayo winds on the ocean surface currents.
- It is a major misconception that salmon swim thousands of kilometers at sea; instead they surf through sea surface currents.
- This radar also uses the dual frequency technique ( see below ) to perform point measurements of the surface current vector
- Seattle oceanographers Curtis Ebbesmeyer and James Ingraham, who were working on an ocean surface current model, began to track their progress.
- If the meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic stopped it would significantly alter the intensity and orientation of surface currents.
- The Falkland Current is not a surface current like the Brazil Current but it extends all the way to the sea-floor.