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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:06 AM May 2017

Mesmerizing ocean currents

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"..an animation of ocean surface currents from June 2005 to December 2007 from NASA satellites. Watch how bigger currents like the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean and the Kuroshio in the Pacific carry warm waters across thousands of miles at speeds greater than four miles per hour (six kilometers per hour); how coastal currents like the Agulhas in the Southern Hemisphere move equatorial waters toward Earth's poles; and how thousands of other ocean currents are confined to particular regions and form slow-moving, circular pools called eddies"
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Mesmerizing ocean currents (Original Post) packman May 2017 OP
Cool! underpants May 2017 #1
Interesting yesphan May 2017 #2

yesphan

(1,587 posts)
2. Interesting
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:41 AM
May 2017

to note that the circular currents move clockwise north of the equator
and counter clockwise south.

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