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What type of wind are part of large patterns of circulation that come from the same direction?
Prevailing
What are major wind systems that follow similar patterns over time called?
Major wind systems that follow similar patterns over time are known as prevailing winds.
Is the Alaska current a wind generated ocean current?
The Alaska Current is a wind driven current.
Is the gulf stream a prevailing wind?
It is a powerfull, warm, swift Atlantic current
Ocean currents and global wind patterns strongly affects a regions what?
Climate(:
Where are currents found?
A surface current is found at the surface of the ocean caused by wind patterns.
What prevailing wind patterns occur because the rotating earth deflects the wind?
they form by combining temperature and pressure!
What type of wind are part of large patterns of circulation that come from the same direction?
Prevailing
What local wind blows during the day from an ocean toward land?
Prevailing Winds or Coastal Prevailing Winds
What are the prevailing winds in great Briton?
The British prevailing wind is from the south-west, straight off the Atlantic Ocean.
What are major wind systems that follow similar patterns over time called?
Major wind systems that follow similar patterns over time are known as prevailing winds.
What will happen to weather patterns if global warming continues?
Weather patterns will change, and are changing already. Warming is energy, and this extra energy in the atmosphere gives more strength to storms, changes wind and ocean current directions, and moves rain from its usual patterns.
Where are surface currents found?
A surface current is found at the surface of the ocean caused by wind patterns.
Is the Alaska current a wind generated ocean current?
The Alaska Current is a wind driven current.
Is the gulf stream a prevailing wind?
It is a powerfull, warm, swift Atlantic current
Does the ocean current affect the animals inside?
no the ocean current is like a wind.
Ocean and wind currents are both caused by?
uneven insolation
