Sentence examples for coastal currents from inspiring English sources

Close to the landmasses, the lines of equal temperature (isotherms) become deflected, indicating warm and cold coastal currents.

The combination of both determines to a large extent the seasonal and interannual variability of the coastal currents.

We study the seasonal and interannual variability of the coastal currents along the eastern shelf of the Gulf of Tehuantepec.

In winter, northerly monsoon winds modify the circulation, and the north-flowing Kuroshio, though still important, is reduced in strength, while southerly flowing coastal currents are strengthened.

The circulation speed reported here is largely coherent with previous studies26, but even faster coastal currents (30 cm s−1) have been observed in the Red Sea40.

The outer harbour, 570 acres (231 hectares) in area, was carefully designed so that its two protecting moles, or breakwaters, prevent coastal currents from silting up the canal.

The Antarctic coastal current flows toward the west.

This effect is interpreted within the framework of the coastal current circulation model based on analysis of the SST snapshot.

If a berg can break away from the coastal current (as Trolltunga had done by late 1977), it enters the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or West Wind Drift.

A second station was located within a southward-flowing coastal current near the southern terminus of the bay at Cape Henlopen.

In the Antarctic, a freshly calved iceberg usually begins by moving westward in the Antarctic Coastal Current, with the coastline on its left.