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Journal of Environmental Hazards

Journal of Environmental Hazards

ISSN: 2684-4923

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Ocean Currents

An current may be a continuous, directed movement of ocean water generated by variety of forces acting upon the water, as well as wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity variations. Depth contours, boundary configurations, and interactions with different currents influence a current's direction and strength. Ocean currents ar primarily horizontal water movements.An current flows for excellent distances and along they produce the worldwide conveyer belt, that plays a dominant role in determinative the climate of the many of Earth’s regions. additional specifically, ocean currents influence the temperature of the regions through that they travel. as an example, heat currents traveling on additional temperate coasts increase the temperature of the world by warming the ocean breezes that elapse them. maybe the foremost hanging. example is that the ocean current, that makes northwest Europe rather more temperate than the other region at an equivalent latitude. Another example is capital of Peru, Peru, wherever the climate is cooler, being sub-tropical, than the tropical latitudes during which the world is found, because of the impact of the ocean current.

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