The movement of surface currents pushed by the wind is fairly intuitive.
One of the prime causes particularly of surface currents, is wind.
Thus the paths taken by the surface currents are only roughly similar to those of the prevailing winds.
The pilot charts only have the surface currents,' said Geordie.
The surface currents, however, ran even more strongly in the opposite di-rection.
Rather, the group seemed to float along the city's surface currents, dipping toes in here and there, then moving on.
He had even named the phenomenon of the near- surface currents.
Although winds are variable, in any one place they predominantly blow from a single direction and thus a surface current can be formed.
Driving surface currents is the wind patterns associated with these circulation cells.
The average surface currents on both sides of the grid are .
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