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What ocean currents are off the western side of the US?
one of the seven seas
What is the side of a continent with cooler ocean temperatures?
The western side of continents tends to have cooler ocean temperatures because of cold ocean currents flowing towards the equator from the poles. These currents bring colder water to the western coasts, influencing the climate of the adjacent land areas.
What is the difference between deep ocean currents and surface currents?
Deep ocean currents are in the depths of the oceans. Surface current are at the surface, not deep down. Deep ocean currents bring vitamins and nutrients to the shore, surface currents do not. Deep ocean currents are caused by salinity and temperature differences. Surface currents are cause by the force and impact of the wind.
Are Ocean trenches very common for the Atlantic Basin?
No, in general the Atlantic basin is very young and the ocean is still getting wider each year. This means that the continents either side are moving in the same direction as the ocean floor so oceanic crust is not yet being forced down into the mantle at the basin margins.
What makes currents move?
when there is two potential , due to potential difference ,electron from -ve side(cathode) flow towards +ve side(anode)(this is nature that electrons from cathod attract by anode) , so the electron moves in the path - ---> +, so current flow opp to that flow + ---> -in
What is the deep steep side valley that originate on the continental slope and may extend to the ocean basin floor called?
Submarine Canyons
How do mountains and ocean currents affect climate?
Mountains can block the flow of air masses, causing them to cool and release moisture as precipitation on one side (windward) and create a rain shadow effect on the other side (leeward). Ocean currents can transport heat around the globe, influencing the temperature and humidity of nearby land areas. Cold currents can cool nearby coastal regions, while warm currents can warm them, affecting local climate patterns.
What are the major differences between eastern boundary currents in the gyres and the western boundary currents in gyres?
Eastern boundary currents are relatively shallow, broad, and slow-flowing. Western boundary currents are warm, deep, narrow, and fast-flowing currents that form on the west side of ocean basins due to western intensification.
What are the major differences between eastern boundary currents in gyres and the western boundary currents in gyres?
Eastern boundary currents are relatively shallow, broad, and slow-flowing. Western boundary currents are warm, deep, narrow, and fast-flowing currents that form on the west side of ocean basins due to western intensification.
What pattern of polarity was found on the ocean floor?
The polarities were mirror images on either side of the mid-ocean ridge.
Westward intensification in the subtropical gyres using your understanding of relative vorticity supplied by the wind and changes in vorticity due to meridonal transport of rotating parcels of water?
Currents flowing on the western side of ocean basins are intensified when compared with the currents flowing on the eastern side of ocean basins. Intensified currents are those that are narrow, extend to great depth and are fast. The largest and most prominent of such currents is the Gulf Stream in the North Atlantic Ocean, but similar currents also flow in the North Pacific Ocean (the Kuroshio Current), the South Atlantic Ocean (the Brazil Current), the Indian Ocean (the Agulhas Current) and the South Pacific (the East Australian Current). The volume transport of the largest of these currents - the Gulf Stream - is about 55 million cubic meters per sec (or 55 sverdrups [sv] ). The reasons for the westward intensification are complex, but can be explained if we balance the three vorticities (induced rotational factors that change the direction of the flow of water) on each side of the basin. Those vorticities and their direction of rotation are:1) Wind Stress - Trade Winds and Prevailing Westerlies create a clockwise (CW) vorticity that is equal on both sides of the basin.2) Frictional - The eastern & western boundaries of the basin both induce a weak counter-clockwise (CCW) frictional vorticity (set up as a resistance to the flow of water) that is also equal on both sides of the basin.3) Coriolis effect (CE) - The Coriolis effect, because it increases with latitude, creates a different vorticity on the two sides of the basin. On the western side, the northward flowing current is subject to an increasing CE deflection, which induces a CW vorticity, while on the eastern side, the southward flowing current is subject to a decreasing CE deflection, which induces a CCW vorticity. Note, therefore, that the CE rotational directions are opposite on the two sides of the basin.The fact that the vorticity due to CE is opposite on the two sides of the basin makes balancing the three vorticities difficult, but it can be shown that the only way to achieve this balance is to intensify the current in the western side of the ocean basin (i.e., a Westward Intensification of the current).This imbalance of CE results in a stronger eastward flow of water at the top of the subtropical gyre and a broad equatorward flow over most of the eastern side of the ocean basin.This eastern boundary flow is consistent with observations in the North Atlantic, where the Canary Current off Africa is broad, slow and shallow, just the opposite of the characteristics of the Gulf Stream, which is very narrow, swift, and extends very deep.
What did Columbus find on the western side of the Atlantic ocean?
columbus found gold
