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Encyclopedia > North Brazil Current

North Brazil Currents is a term of the complexion of Atlantic Southern equatorial current and the Atlantic equatorial counter current, Guinea current. These stream in opposite directions, and fluctuate in their strength, thus making it very difficult to sail fast in the respective area. The Guinea Current is a slow warm water current that flows easterly along the Guinea coast of West Africa. ...


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Long Term Time Series of Surface Currents - North Brazil Current (182 words)
The North Brazil Current (NBC) is a western boundary current that flows off the coast of northeast Brazil and retroflects between 4°N and 10°N. The NBC sheds large anticyclonic rings that move northwestward along the continental break.
Fields of meridional and zonal components of the mean eddy kinetic energy for the NBC retroflection region estimated using altimetry fields.
Geostrophic transport time-series of the NBC Current and its retroflected flow both estimated using a combination of satellite altimetry fields and climatological data.
Nn-Nz (6388 words)
The Nordic Seas are separated from the North Atlantic to the south by the Greenland-Scotland Ridge, and are connected to the Arctic Ocean to the north via the 2200 m deep Fram Strait.
The northward limb of the anticyclonic subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean.
It adjoins the Barents Sea to the northeast, the Greenland Sea to the northwest, the Iceland Sea to the west, and the North Sea to the southeast.
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