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  2. South Atlantic Current - Wikipedia

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    The South Atlantic Current is an eastward ocean current, fed by the Brazil Current. That fraction of it which reaches the African coast feeds the Benguela Current . It is continuous with the northern edge of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current .

  3. Atlantic meridional overturning circulation - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is the main current system in the Atlantic Ocean [1]: 2238 and is also part of the global thermohaline circulation, which connects the world's oceans with a single "conveyor belt" of continuous water exchange. [18]

  4. Benguela Current - Wikipedia

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    The Benguela Current / b ɛ ŋ ˈ ɡ ɛ l ə / is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre. The current extends from roughly Cape Point in the south, to the position of the Angola-Benguela Front in the north, at around 16°S. The current is driven by the prevailing south easterly ...

  5. A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse ...

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    A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster ...

  6. Brazil Current - Wikipedia

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    The Brazil Current is a part of the South Atlantic subtropical gyre. The southern side of the gyre consists of the eastward-flowing South Atlantic Current (SAC). The eastern boundary is the Benguela Current System (BCS). The north side consists of the SEC, which flows west and then splits with the north water becoming the North Brazil Current ...

  7. Ocean current - Wikipedia

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    Atlantic meridional overturning circulation – System of surface and deep currents in the Atlantic Ocean; Azores CurrentOcean current in the North Atlantic Ocean; Benguela CurrentOcean current in the South Atlantic; Brazil Current – Warm current that flows south along the Brazilian south coast to the mouth of the Río de la Plata

  8. Ocean gyre - Wikipedia

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    The South Atlantic Gyre is located in the southern hemisphere in the Atlantic Ocean, between the Intertropical Convergence Zone in the north and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the south. The South Equatorial Current brings water west towards South America, forming the northern boundary of the South Atlantic gyre.

  9. Gulf Stream is weakest it's been in more than 1,000 years ...

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    This Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, satellite image made available by NOAA shows Tropical Storm Eta at 10:40 a.m. EST in the Gulf of Mexico, Theta, right, and a tropical wave to the south that became ...