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Near the shore, surface currents are driven by both the wind and tides, which draw water back and forth as the water level falls and rises.
Meanwhile, in the open ocean, wind is the major force behind surface currents.
If you zoom out to look at the patterns of surface currents all over the earth, you’ll see that they form big loops called gyres, which travel clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
That’s because of the way the Earth’s rotation affects the wind patterns that give rise to these currents.
And because water holds onto heat more effectively than air, these currents help redistribute warmth around the globe.
Unlike surface currents, deep ocean currents are driven primarily by changes in the density of seawater.
Thermohaline circulation of deep water and wind-driven surface currents combine to form a winding loop called the Global Conveyor Belt.
The only way we’ll be able to forecast correctly and prepare accordingly will be to continue to study currents and the powerful forces that shape them.
And all these faults are subject to varying gravitational forces, as well as the currents of hot rocks moving throughout Earth’s mantle.
And of course, we have to design it so it can produce its own power, harvesting the thermal mass of the oceans, the force of the tides, of the currents, of the waves, the power of the wind, the heat and the energy of the sun.
If it did fall off, she would dive and rescue it, and she battled stiff currents to do this.
While crossing the English Channel, after already having swam for 10 hours, when I got stuck in one place for one and a half hour because of the currents, I saw the strong and dedicated athlete in me, who did not want to disappoint her parents or her country.
And this is in contrast to currents methods of fabric production, where a plant is grown, just the cotton part is harvested, processed into a yarn, woven into a fabric and then potentially shipped across oceans before being cut and sewn into a garment.
It's susceptible to motion by the air currents.
You're measuring these electrical currents, sloshing back and forth in your brain.
It's in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in the center of this vast, swirling system of currents that we call the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre.
We've tracked the currents, traced the waves.
Well, I plan my route so that I'm drifting with the winds and the currents while I'm sleeping.
And they combine these measurements with complex computer models and make beautiful, global visualizations such as this one, showing the ocean currents and the temperature of the ocean, globally.
positive reception reflects continual patriarchal currents in the social conscience.
As Fu Manchu, he looks hardly better and spends most of the film (with the exception of those strangely disturbing scenes where he gets jolted with electrical currents) on the verge of collapsing under the weight of all that makeup.
An excellent film depicting the cross currents in the lives of a multi-ethnic mix of not so ordinary people in the rural Pacific Northwest.
First, it was overly sexualized with sexual overtones and currents throughout the whole film.
Unfortunately on this voyage the Nile proves to have disturbing currents, and a wealthy heiress with a propensity for making enemies is shot.
India’s national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.
There can be no democratic transition if Islamic currents that reject violence and accept democracy's ground rules are not integrated into the public arena.
But this is to neglect the deeper currents driving the confrontation.
Until the world regains its bearings, this is not the time to charge in bold new directions, or to let the currents push us toward potential hazards.
In fact, the inclusion of homosexuality as a pathological condition suggests the extent to which psychiatric diagnosis has been shaped by social and political currents.
Better educated and more in touch with global currents through the media or their own travel, women began participating in Moroccan political debates.
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