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- Currents, Gyres, Eddies - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Weather and Climate One of the most important roles of ocean currents is in governing Earth’s weather and climate Western boundary currents such as the Gulf Stream carry large amounts of heat from tropical waters to the north This flow is part of the thermohaline circulation, or ocean conveyor and helps distributes heat around the planet
- Detours on the Oceanic Highway - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The bend also directs the Deep Western Boundary Current close to the other key feature: the Gulf Stream-North Atlantic Current system, which flows near the surface above the Deep Western Boundary Current at ten times the speed The energetic Gulf Stream spins up many eddies that can peel off northward into the Grand Banks region
- Deep Western Boundary Current Circulation - Woods Hole Oceanographic . . .
Map of Newfoundland coast showing drifter data revealing most of the Deep Western Boundary Current flows offshore near the Grand Banks
- PII: S0079-6611(01)00083-0 - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
In the following three sections, we review the southern-hemisphere subtropical regime and its associated boundary currents (Section 6), the Indonesian Throughflow (Section 7), the Red Sea and Persian Gulf circulations (Section 8), and discuss aspects of their interactions with other Indian-Ocean circulations
- Opposing currents, Deep Western Boundary Current and Gulf Stream
Scientists use mathematical models of the Deep Western Boundary Current, Newfoundland's topography, and the Gulf Stream to study what causes water to divert from the current
- Why Western Boundary Currents in Realistic Oceans are Inviscid: A Link . . .
The situation is complicated by the role of nonline-arity in western boundary currents, which can be sig-nificant However, nonlinearity cannot balance wind stress curl in an integral sense, so friction remains cru-cial in these boundary currents in order to obtain a dy-namical balance when the only relevant topography is in vertical sidewalls
- Changes in the North Atlantic deep western boundary currents not . . .
The relationship in models between convection, changes in deep western boundary currents and the strength of the MOC also underpins evidence from paleoclimate proxies for periods of reduced MOC and low European temperatures
- Currents - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
On the theoretical large-scale model conceived by Stommel and Arons, the Deep Western Boundary Current is the main oceanic highway directing cold, dense water southward in the North Atlantic—much the way Interstate 95 steers trafic on the U S Eastern Seaboard
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