General Wind Driven Circulation.

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General Wind Driven Circulation

South Equatorial Current North Equatorial Counter Current Canary Current Azores Current Labrador E. Greenland Current Norwegian North Atlantic Drift North Atlantic Current Gulf Stream Florida Antilles Loop Current Guianna Current North Equatorial Current

South Equatorial Current North Equatorial Counter Current Equatorial Under Current (40 Sv) Oyashio Alaskan Gyre California Current North Pacific Current Kurioshio Extension Kuroshio North Equatorial Current

Agulas Current Malvinas Current Guianna Current North Brazil Current South Equatorial Current Bengula Current Antartic Circumpolar Current Brazil Current

Peru Current Antartic Circumpolar Current East Australian Current South Equatorial Current

Northeast Monsoons (November to March) Equatorial Counter Current North Equatorial Current Antarctic Circumpolar Current Southeast Trades Agulas Current South Equatorial Current Northeast Monsoons Westerlies

Southwest Monsoons (May to September) Southwest Monsoon Current Antarctic Circumpolar Current Southeast Trades Agulas Current South Equatorial Current Southwest Monsoons Westerlies Somali Current

Deep Water Formation

North Atlantic Deep Water Antarctic Bottom Water Antarctic Intermediate Water Water Masses in the Atlantic

Antarctic Intermediate Water Common Water Or Pacific Deep Water Water Masses in the Pacific

Water Masses in the Indian Oean

PacificAtlantic Common Water Indian Salinity Sections

Salinity at 3000 meters

Dissolved Oxygen at 3000 meters