Sentence examples for oceanic current from inspiring English sources

These include technologies used for vertical profile measurements of (1) ocean currents; (2) oceanic current shear and fine structure; and (3) oceanic current shear and microstructure.

Agulhas Current, surface oceanic current that forms the western boundary current of the southern Indian Ocean.

Warm, moist weather results from the Kuroshio (a strong surface oceanic current).

Timor Current, surface oceanic current flowing southwest along the coast of Timor in the Indonesian Archipelago.

North Korea Cold Current, surface oceanic current flowing southward east of Korea near Vladivostok, Russia.

East Korea Warm Current, surface oceanic current, the northward-flowing branch of the Tsushima Current in the Sea of Japan.

It documents the impact of plastic marine debris as it journeys around the world's oceans, coalescing inside giant oceanic currents known as gyres and concentrating the plastic into areas such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch that floats north of Hawaii.

The terms hydrography and hydrographer date from the mid-16th century; their focus has become restricted to studies of ocean depths and of the directions and intensities of oceanic currents; though at various times they embraced much of the sciences now called hydrology and oceanography.

Contrary to the common view that ocean sunfish are planktonic fish at the mercy of oceanic currents, the sunfish tagged in this study swam actively with continuous strokes of their fins while making substantial vertical movements in the water column (Table 1, Fig. 1).

Measurements of velocity of oceanic currents are crucial for evaluating heat and mass transport, monitoring ocean dynamics, and understanding the ocean's role in climate.

Flow is associated with rivers, oceanic currents, and waves and can be laminar (streamlined) or turbulent.