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ocean current

[′ō·shən ′kə·rənt]
(oceanography)
A net transport of ocean water along a definable path.
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They act as a fingerprint of an ocean current, so to speak.
Germany : The Essence of the Oceans
THE sea has delivered a belated Christmas present to North East researchers investigating ocean currents.
Ocean equipment resurfaces after five years lost
The event also inspired the premise of the 2004 disaster film, 'The Day After Tomorrow," which exaggerates the speed and strength of the cooling by depicting the planet entering an ice age in a matter of weeks after the ocean current collapses.
Providing Clues About Future Climate Change
In this limit, we find that the 2% relationship is not applicable and that icebergs instead move with the ocean current, unaffected by the wind.
THE INFLUENCE OF WINDS VERSUS OCEAN CURRENTS ON ICEBERG DRIFT
Within this framework, the unique "underwater floating type ocean current turbine system" developed by IHI and Toshiba will demonstrate power generation in a real ocean environment, in a project expected to continue until fiscal year 2017.
Toshiba joins Japanese ocean power study
Combined, all these measurements will provide additional information to scientists on how accurately each drifter design is measuring the currents, which will then be implemented to improve ocean current models.
The International Seakeepers Society Will Conduct a Weeklong Expedition Off the Coast of Miami with CARTHE and Fleet Miami to Study Ocean Monitoring Devices
The crew has said they were reluctant to evacuate the passengers because they feared they would not survive the cold waters and strong ocean current. They also say the ship was listing heavily, making it hard to free lifeboats.
S. Korea Ferry Death Toll Nears 150, Search for Victims Continues
Measuring Ocean Currents: Tools, Technologies, and Data
Measuring Ocean Currents: Tools, Technologies, and Data
Winds, Earth's rotation, and the shape of the ocean floor determine the paths ocean currents take.
Riding on a current
The Louisiana governor's comments came as experts confirmed that a "small portion" of light sheen from the oil slick has already entered a strong ocean current that could sweep the slick towards Florida and Cuba and possibly up the US east coast.
Oil slick hits Louisiana coastline
But worries were growing that the slick could soon reach a major ocean current which could carry it up the east coast of the US.
Fears on oil spill
A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists in the Southern Ocean, 4200 km south-west of Perth.
Newly discovered Southern Ocean current equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers

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