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General Wind Driven Circulation

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1 General Wind Driven Circulation

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

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

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

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

7 South Equatorial Current Antartic Circumpolar Current
Peru Current East Australian Current Antartic Circumpolar Current

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

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

10 Deep Water Formation

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

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

13 Water Masses in the Indian Oean

14 Salinity Sections Indian Pacific Atlantic Common Water

15 Salinity at 3000 meters

16 Dissolved Oxygen at 3000 meters


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