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Caribbean current, a warm ocean current in Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Islands. The Caribbean Current is a warm ocean current that transports significant amounts of water and flows northwestward through the Caribbean from the east along the coast of South America and into the Gulf of Mexico. [1] The current results from the flow of the Atlantic ...
Brazil Current – Warm current that flows south along the Brazilian south coast to the mouth of the Río de la Plata; Canary Current – Wind-driven surface current that is part of the North Atlantic Gyre; Cape Horn Current – Cold water current that flows west-to-east around Cape Horn; Caribbean Current – Atlantic Ocean current
North Brazil Undercurrent (NBUC) begins much more to the south than the NBC. The NBUC is an extension from the sub-surface current of the southern South Equatorial Current (sSEC). The sSEC travels to the South American continent because of the westward deflection of the Benguela Current from the southeast Atlantic Ocean. [15]
A new storm system is brewing in the Atlantic and both the US and the Caribbean could feel its impact. Currently, the unformed system is about 1,000 miles from the Lesser and Greater Antilles in ...
The hurricane center is currently tracking two systems in the Atlantic, including one in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, which is currently designated as Invest 95L.
Antilles Current, an arm of the North Atlantic Gyre. The Antilles Current is a highly variable surface ocean current of warm water that flows northwesterly, past the island chain that separates the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The current results from the flow of the Atlantic North Equatorial Current.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a tropical wave approaching Jamaica and the northern Caribbean that could eventually impact the N.C. coast, depending on where the steering winds push ...
A narrower, weaker counter current, the Davidson Current, occasionally moves somewhat warmer water northwards during the winter months. During El Niño events, the California Current is disrupted, leading to declines in phytoplankton , resulting in cascading effects up the food chain, such as declines in fisheries, seabird breeding failures and ...