Equatorial Countercurrent

[‚e·kwə′tȯr·ē·əl ′kau̇nt·ər‚kər·ənt]

(oceanography)

An ocean current flowing eastward (counter to and between the westward-flowing North Equatorial Current and South Equatorial Current) through all the oceans.

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We have no idea the direction his disease will take: Labrador Current or North Atlantic Drift or Equatorial Countercurrent. Like an aneurysm.

Explorations of the Gulf Stream, with Notes on the Body Ill

The first cruise (DEM I) was from May to June 1995 when the California Current and the North Equatorial Countercurrent converge in front of Jalisco and Colima; the second in November 1995 (DEM II) under the strong influence of the North Equatorial Countercurrent, a tropical water mass; and the third in March 1996 (DEM III) during the effect of the California Current, a cold water mass.

Abundance variation of Porichthys margaritatus (Pisces: Batrachoididae) throughout thermic and bathymetric gradients in the central Mexican Pacific

These southward flowing waters are then swept eastward by the North Equatorial Countercurrent, finally penetrating to the equator in the central and eastern Pacific.

The El Nino/Southern Oscillation phenomenon: seeking its "trigger" and working toward prediction

The diatoms creating the streak in the Pacific congregate and thrive at the convergence of the North Equatorial Countercurrent and the cooler, denser water of the South Equatorial Current sinking below it, the scientists assert.

Microorganisms create a line in the ocean

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