What are Currents?
Currents are cohesive streams of water that travels through the Earth's oceans.
What are the two types of Currents?
Gulf Stream Currents: Huge Linear currents that can last a thousand years.
Eddy Currents: Smaller than Gulf Stream Currents, last a shorter time, and they are circular.
What are the two types of Circulations?
1. Surface Circulation
2. Deep Circulation
What are Gyres?
Gyres are circular currents that are located in different parts of the oceans. These trap objects like trash polution and circulate them forever
Currents move in the direction of the Coriolis Effect, due to the change in gravity from the poles. They do not move according to the wind. Also, they move according to the land underneath them, and the tectonic plates.
The North Atlantic Current forms a large Gyre, because of the combination of the Easterly and Westerly Winds as well as the temperature difference from the Tropics to the North Atlantic.
What are "Longshore Currents"?
Longshore Currents are Currents that run parallel to Shore, and against the wind. These cause waves to reach bays and inlands at a sloped angle, not parallel to the shore.
What are "Upwelling Currents"?
Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-depleted surface water
What is the "Global Conveyor Belt"?
It is a massive long change of water that moves being heated and cooled that runs across the earth heating certain areas that need it and cooling certain areas that need to be cooled as well, and changes the climate of the area as well.
Currents are cohesive streams of water that travels through the Earth's oceans.
What are the two types of Currents?
Gulf Stream Currents: Huge Linear currents that can last a thousand years.
Eddy Currents: Smaller than Gulf Stream Currents, last a shorter time, and they are circular.
What are the two types of Circulations?
1. Surface Circulation
2. Deep Circulation
What are Gyres?
Gyres are circular currents that are located in different parts of the oceans. These trap objects like trash polution and circulate them forever
Currents move in the direction of the Coriolis Effect, due to the change in gravity from the poles. They do not move according to the wind. Also, they move according to the land underneath them, and the tectonic plates.
The North Atlantic Current forms a large Gyre, because of the combination of the Easterly and Westerly Winds as well as the temperature difference from the Tropics to the North Atlantic.
What are "Longshore Currents"?
Longshore Currents are Currents that run parallel to Shore, and against the wind. These cause waves to reach bays and inlands at a sloped angle, not parallel to the shore.
What are "Upwelling Currents"?
Upwelling is an oceanographic phenomenon that involves wind-driven motion of dense, cooler, and usually nutrient-rich water towards the ocean surface, replacing the warmer, usually nutrient-depleted surface water
What is the "Global Conveyor Belt"?
It is a massive long change of water that moves being heated and cooled that runs across the earth heating certain areas that need it and cooling certain areas that need to be cooled as well, and changes the climate of the area as well.