(oceanography) A surface current opposite to the Gulf Stream, one current component on the Sargasso Sea side and the other component much weaker, on the inshore side. A predicted, but as yet unobserved, large current deep under the Gulf Stream but opposite to it.
Gulf Stream Countercurrent
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(′gəlf ¦strēm ′kau̇nt·ər′kə·rənt)
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