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Gulf Stream Countercurrent

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Gulf Stream Countercurrent [′gəlf ¦strēm ′kau̇nt·ər‚kə·rənt]
(oceanography)
A surface current opposite to the Gulf Stream, one current component on the Sargasso Sea side and the other component much weaker, on the inshore side.
A predicted, but as yet unobserved, large current deep under the Gulf Stream but opposite to it.


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