• A subsurface ocean current is an oceanic current that runs beneath surface currents. Examples include the Equatorial Undercurrents of the Pacific, Atlantic...
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    within the ocean Subsurface ocean current – Oceanic currents that flow beneath surface currents Thermohaline circulation – Part of large-scale ocean circulation...
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    The Cromwell Current (also called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent or just Equatorial Undercurrent) is an eastward-flowing subsurface current that extends...
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  • the existence of subsurface water oceans elsewhere in the Solar System. The best-established candidates for subsurface water oceans in the Solar System...
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    either beneath the surface, as subsurface oceans, or on the surface, potentially submerging all dry land. The term ocean world is also used sometimes for...
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    Yushi; Bushuk, Mitchell (2022-11-30). "The relative role of the subsurface Southern Ocean in driving negative Antarctic Sea ice extent anomalies in 2016–2021"...
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  • include: Air current Water current Current (hydrology), a current in a river or stream Ocean current Longshore current Boundary current Rip current Rip tide...
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    Benguela Current /bɛŋˈɡɛlə/ is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre. The current extends...
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    Physical Oceanography – Lecture 6 Physical Geography – Surface and Subsurface Ocean Currents North Pacific Gyre Oscillation — Georgia Institute of Technology...
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    originated in the Indian Ocean. Another example of advection is the nonequatorial Pacific heating which results from subsurface processes related to atmospheric...
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    An oceanic or submarine plateau is a large, relatively flat elevation that is higher than the surrounding relief with one or more relatively steep sides...
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    Antoon; Lloyd, Jerry M. (27 September 2010). "Interaction between subsurface ocean waters and calving of the Jakobshavn Isbræ during the late Holocene"...
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    Water wave mechanics for engineers and scientists. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Vol. 2. World Scientific, Singapore. ISBN 978-981-02-0420-4...
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  • Undersea mountain range (category Coastal and oceanic landforms)
    specifically under the surface of an ocean. If originated from current tectonic forces, they are often referred to as a mid-ocean ridge. In contrast, if formed...
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    subsurface ocean to exist, whereas the slow cooling of the liquid Fe–FeS core causes convection and supports magnetic field generation. The current heat...
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    Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean current that flows clockwise (as seen from the South Pole) from west to east around Antarctica. An alternative...
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    Bahama Banks (category Undersea banks of the Atlantic Ocean)
    The slopes around them however, such as the border of the Tongue of the Ocean in the Great Bahama Bank, are very steep. The Banks were dry land during...
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    North Pacific Ocean Current, thus completing the loop of the Alaska Gyre. The Gulf of Alaska coastal area includes the offshore Alaska Current, Alaskan Stream...
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    in the thermocline, for example at intermediate water depths below the ocean's mixed layer. The most important component of these platforms is fine-grained...
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    Tide (redirect from Tidal current)
    Murray. Le Lacheur, Embert A. (April 1924). "Tidal currents in the open sea: Subsurface tidal currents at Nantucket Shoals Light Vessel". Geographical Review...
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  • Subsurface mapping by ambient noise tomography is the mapping underground geological structures under the assistance of seismic signals. Ambient noise...
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    Earth is unique among the rocky planets in the Solar System in having oceans of liquid water on its surface. Liquid water, which is necessary for all...
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    pollution from the oceans and to capture it in rivers before it can reach the ocean. Their initial focus was on the Pacific Ocean and its garbage patch...
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    The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history...
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    ocean below. Sea salt from a subsurface ocean may be coating some geological features on Europa, suggesting that the ocean is interacting with the sea...
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    closely associated with underwater diving Subsurface ocean current – Oceanic currents that flow beneath surface currents Timeline of diving technology – Chronological...
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  • Sea state Ocean surface stress Sea ice Sea surface height Sea surface temperature Subsurface temperature Surface currents Subsurface currents Sea surface...
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    caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and underwater explosions...
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    seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. Almost all are not well-mapped and...
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  • An acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) is a hydroacoustic current meter similar to a sonar, used to measure water current velocities over a depth...
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