| Many are planktonic like the diatoms and Sargassum, floating free near the water surface, and being carried along by the surface currents. |
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| These winds can generate surface currents that add to the tidal currents shown in this Atlas. |
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| Large surface currents are mainly driven by winds that blow year round. |
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| Rather, the group seemed to float along the city's surface currents, dipping toes in here and there, then moving on. |
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| Below the influence of the surface currents, water movement is sluggish and irregular. |
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| In the winter, surface currents trend southwest only to reverse themselves during the summer. |
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| This wind distribution drives a system of surface currents in the uppermost 100 metres of the ocean. |
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| In South Africa mussel larvae disperse with the speed and direction of surface currents. |
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| Information about surface currents helps biologists to estimate fish stocks and search and rescue teams to track lifeboats. |
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| The main basin typically has slower currents than the rest of the lagoon and surface currents are stronger than the ones closer to the bottom. |
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| As sea ice is partially submerged in the sea, it will also move in response to near surface currents and tides. |
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| The following paragraphs summarize key aspects of the mean surface currents, beginning with the southern regions, continuing northward. |
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| Coastal radar systems can provide detailed measurements of surface currents, and numeric models have been developed to forecast ice conditions. |
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| Winds are one of the things that make the drifting buoys move, directly, or by its effects on surface currents. |
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| Wind-driven surface currents in the deep ocean, on the other hand, are of major importance to navigation. |
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| On this map of the Labrador Sea, solid green lines represent surface currents and broken blue lines represent deep currents. |
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| Students should come to understand that surface currents carry tropical heat to various parts of the ocean. |
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| The force of trade winds periodically diminishes, modifying surface currents and oceanic circulation. |
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| Occasionally, ocean swells make certain entries difficult and surface currents impose the necessity for immediate descents. |
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| Thus, equatorial upwelling occurs in these westward flowing equatorial surface currents. |
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| The latter is also a biosphere reserve. Models will be derived from satellite imagery to analyse sea surface temperature, water quality, surface currents and other oceanographic conditions of the marine biological corridor. |
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| Improve the quality of sea-surface wind analysis and forecasts by incorporating scatterometer measurements from operational satellites into the CMC data assimilation to improve forecasts of ocean surface currents. |
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| These cause frictional surface currents towards the latitude at the center of the gyre. |
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| The data describes coastal morphology, surface currents and wave parameters. |
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| Knowledge of the surface currents and of the winds in the accident zone makes it possible to estimate theoretically the previous positions of each referenced body and piece of debris by backwards calculation of a trajectory. |
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| Regions prone to upwelling and downwelling are of major research interest in the search for global links among wind-driven surface currents, density-driven Deep Ocean circulation, and the atmosphere. |
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| From September through May surface currents in the sea flow west. |
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| Gyres occur when airflows moving from the tropics to the polar regions create a clockwise rotating air mass, which then drives oceanic surface currents in the same direction. |
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| The surface currents of the Indian Ocean also have a monsoonal regimen associated with the Asian Monsoonal wind regimen. |
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| The movement of surface currents pushed by the wind is fairly intuitive. |
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| Surface currents are found on the surface of an ocean, and are driven by large scale wind currents. |
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| Surface currents are generally restricted to the upper 400 meters of the ocean. |
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| Surface currents generally move outward from the center of the system. |
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