Caribbean Current

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Caribbean Current

[kar·ə′bē·ən ′kər·ənt]

(oceanography)

A water current flowing westward through the Caribbean Sea.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Caribbean Current

a current in the Caribbean Sea, anextension of the North Equatorial Current of the AtlanticOcean. It flows to the west and northwest along the Great An-tilles Islands and then south at speeds of 1–2.8 km/hr andhigher. The water temperature is 25°-28°C; salinity is approxi-mately 36.0 parts per thousand.

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The westward-flowing Caribbean Current (Wust, 1964; Morrison & Nowlin, 1982), with its characteristically intense transit of mesoscale eddies, is the major oceanographic process in the Caribbean (Jouanno, Sheinbaum, Barnier, Molines, & Candela, 2012).

In the Northeast zone, eddies are formed and transported in both seasons in the Caribbean current that enters the Colombia basin from Brazil.

Variabilidad espacial de la estructura comunitaria del zooplancton en aguas oceanicas del Caribe colombiano durante dos estaciones

"These reports indicate that the large amount of sargassum-and presumably the dolphin associating with it--in the Caribbean is being pushed to the west where the Caribbean current should carry it northward ultimately through the Yucatan Straits into the Gulf of Mexico," he said.

Mahi on the march: as spring closes in, anglers review conditions and tactics which spelled epic dolphin fishing in 2015

Cherubin LM, Richardson PL (2007) Caribbean current variability and the influence of the Amazon and Orinoco freshwater plumes.

First report of Rhizophora racemosa Meyer (Rhizophoraceae) in the mangrove forests of the Venezuelan Caribbean Coast/ Primer reporte de Rhizophora racemosa Meyer (Rhizophoraceae) en los manglares de la Costa Caribe de Venezuela/ Primeiro relatorio de Rhizophora racemosa Meyer (Rhizophoraceae) nos mangues da Costa do Caribe da Venezuela

Two of these sites are within the "northern Caribbean current track": San Salvador (Bahamas) and St.

1), a larva traveling in the major Caribbean currents would be carried at least 360 km.

Early life histories, ocean currents, and the population genetics of Caribbean reef fishes

The water advected northward by the eddies probably then enters the Caribbean Current.

Giant eddies of South Atlantic Water invade the North: disrupted flow and swirling waters

They then ride the Antilles, Florida and Caribbean currents and the Gulf Stream for about a year if they are American eels.

Easing the way for eels; Project provides passage past dams

As stated in the preface by Peter Manuel, Caribbean Currents is intended as an introductory text, primarily for undergraduate college students.

Caribbean Currents is organized into ten chapters, each of which constitutes a separate study that may be read independency of other sections.