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Why do water current and wind currents flow clockwise in the Northern hemisphere?
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What is a transverse current?
A transverse current is an ocean current that goes either west or east. The strongest transverse currents are the equatorial currents, which are driven by the trade winds.
What is the cause of an electric current?
Electric currents are caused by voltages.
Who discovered electrical currents?
Credit of discovery of current goes to Ampere
What opposes the flow of an electric currents?
Resistance in OMS: In alternating current is is measured in impedance.
How do convection currents distribute heat in the oceans?
the radiation from the sun will send heat to the ocean and the heat would make currents hot Basically a convection current
Different hemispheres-does water flow the opposite direction?
What you are talking about is the Coriolis effect. In the northern hemisphere currents rotate in a clockwise rotation and in the southern hemisphere current rotation is in an anti clockwise rotation.See related links below
Why do major surface current gyres in the northern hemisphere flow clockwise?
The Coriolis effect causes northern gyres to spin clockwise.
Name of ocean current that carries cold water to the eastern pacific ocean in the northern hemisphere?
The Alaska, Northern Pacific, and California currents carry cold water in the Eastern Pacific ocean in the Northern Hemisphere.
Is it true or false that in the northern hemisphere surface currents curve to the left?
False. In the northern hemisphere, surface currents generally curve to the right due to the Coriolis effect. The Coriolis effect is caused by the rotation of the Earth, which deflects moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere.
What causes a convection current?
Actually, there are many ways for a convection current to form. So, if you asked this question, here is one way:A convection current forms when Hot air and Cold air form a cycle and mix. . .That's one way!ToodlesByee
What causes water currents?
Surface ocean currents are mainly wind-driven and occur in all of the world's oceans. Examples of large surface currents that move across vast expanses of ocean are the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current, the California Current, the Atlantic South Equatorial Current, and the Westwind Drift. Associated with surface currents are counter-surface and underlying currents. Surface ocean currents are deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis effect. The Coriolis effect holds that because the Earth is spinning, surface waters move in a clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in a counterclockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere. The currents eventually come into contact with the continents which deflect them, creating giant oceanic current circles known as gyres. Vertical and ocean-bottom currents are mainly driven by density differences caused by changes in temperature and salinity. Originating in polar regions, cold, salty waters sink to the ocean bottom and move toward the opposite poles where they again surface. Vertical upwelling currents can also be caused by winds "blowing off" a coastline. The displaced waters are then replaced by underlying bottom waters. Currents are important to marine life as they help to move food and nutrients, making them available for photosynthesis, metabolic requirements and/or consumption.
What hemisphere is on winter?
At the current time of year of this question - January - it is winter in the northern hemisphere.
Ocean currents in the northern and southern hemispheres turn?
against the current
What direction do most of the surface currents north of the equator move?
The current north of the equator moves clockwise.
Two currents that carry water from far northern regions are the Greenland Current and the?
Greenland Current and the Kamchatka Current
What two ocean currents affect Eastern Canada?
The gulf stream, the labrador current and the northern pacific current are 3 currents that affect eastern canada.
What hemisphere is the north equatorial current located in?
As it is called the 'North Equatorial Current' the name would suggest that it is located North of the equator, in the Northern hemisphere.
