ocean current: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Useful books include Angela Colling (ed.), Ocean Circulation, 2nd ed. (2001, reprinted 2007); George Lawson Pickard and William J. Emery, Descriptive Physical Oceanography: An Introduction, 5th enlarged ed. (1990, reprinted 2007); Joseph Pedlosky, Ocean Circulation Theory, 2nd ed. (1998); Benoit Cushman-Roisin, Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, 2nd ed. (2009); and Henry M. Stommel and Dennis W. Moore, An Introduction to the Coriolis Force (1989).
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Claudia Cenedese
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
- Arnold L. Gordon
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Ocean Currents. | Oct 27, 2026 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 28, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Proceedings B - Ocean currents help explain population genetic structure. | Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Institute of Physics - Ocean Currents and Climate (PDF). | May 06, 2025 | ||
| Added cross-reference. | Mar 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - How Ocean Currents Work (and How We Are Breaking Them). | Feb 28, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Ocean Currents. | Jan 02, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington - Department of Earth and Space Sciences - Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years. | Nov 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cell Press - Current Biology - Ocean currents and marine life. | Aug 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Minnesota Libraries - Classroom Partners - Ocean Currents. | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Thompson Rivers University Pressbooks - Environmental Geology - Ocean Currents and Climate Change. | Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Noted that the northward-moving portion of thermohaline circulation is called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). | Feb 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Understanding Global Change - Ocean circulation. | Dec 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa - Ocean Surface Currents - Ocean Surface Currents. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Salt Lake Community College Pressbooks - Ocean Currents. | Jul 27, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Ocean Currents. | Jun 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Ocean Currents. | Jan 26, 2023 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jul 21, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Florida Center for Environmental Studies - Climate Science Investigations - Ocean Current. | May 03, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies - Satellite Applications for Geoscience Education - Ocean Current. | May 03, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Ocean currents. | May 03, 2018 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised to include the following sections: Causes of ocean currents and Two types of ocean circulation. | Sep 27, 2011 | ||
| Map depicting all of the world's major ocean currents added. | Sep 27, 2011 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Sep 16, 2011 | ||
| Added assembly. | Jul 02, 2009 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 12, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Ocean Currents Work. | Dec 26, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Office of Naval Research - Ocean in Motion: Currents - Characteristics. | May 18, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Apr 24, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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