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Title: Aerographer's Mate 3 & 2
Identifier: aerographersmate00nava (find matches)
Year: 1976 (1970s)
Authors: Naval Education and Training Program Development Center; United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Subjects: United States. Navy; Meteorology; Oceanography
Publisher: Washington : U. S. Dept. of Defense, Navy Dept. , Naval Education and Training Support Command
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Chapter 16 —FUNDAMENTALS OF OCEANOGRAPHY
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209.327 Figure 16-9. — Surface currents of the oceans (February-March), be expected. The temperatures near the coast are further lowered by the UPWELLING of colder water from moderate depths; theupwelling is caused by the prevailing winds. The upwelling here is not as pronounced as at some other localities. Upwelling of ocean water is the process by which the colder subsurface waters are brought to the top. This is made possible in areas where the winds cause the surface water to be transported away from the coast, with the surface water being replaced by the colder subsurface water. In the Northern Hemisphere upwelling is common where a wind blows parallel to the coast, with the coast on the left side of the wind, which causes the surface water to be transported to the right and away from the coast. In the process of upwelling, the overturn of water takes place only in the upper layers (to a maximum depth of about 150 fathoms). A branch of the SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT crosses the Equator from the South Atlantic Ocean and joins with the North Equatorial Current in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean. Consequently, the part of the North Equatorial Current that enters the Caribbean Sea has water that has been mixed with water of the South Atlantic Ocean. The northern branch of the North Equatorial Current which flows along the northern side of the Greater Antilles is called the ANTILLES CURRENT. It carries water that is virtually the same as that of the Sargasso Sea (a portion of the middle North Atlantic Ocean), Gulf Stream System The northward and eastward flow of water that begins in the Florida Straits is known as the Gulf Stream system. These waters include 387

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