Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of A
The Labrador Sea is a body of water located in the northwestern arm of the North Atlantic Ocean, between Labrador, Canada (southwest), and Greenland (northeast).
The Atlantic Ocean is located between the Americas to the West of the Atlantic Ocean basin and the continents of Europe and Africa to the East of the ocean basin. The Equator divides the Atlantic Ocean into the North Atlantic Ocean and the South Atlantic Ocean. Below you can see a world ...
Three tsunami-generating earthquakes on the rim of the Atlantic Ocean Basin are described below. Each is accompanied by a calculated travel time map of the Atlantic basin. Magnitude 7.3, Puerto Rico, 1918 A magnitude 7.3 earthquake in the Mona Passage off the northwest coast of Puerto Rico prod...
It also has other weather information, such as a map of weather stations around the world here. You can keep zooming in by clicking the map, and the "Zoom in" button, until you see a list of stations below the map. You can then click the station to view information from it. Ocean...
Ocean and atmosphere variability is investigated over the whole Atlantic basin in a 51-year record of sea surface temperature (SST). In the tropics, SSTs variations are separated into two time scales: decadal (8-16 years) and interannual (< 5 years). A strong cross-equatorial gradient mode ...
NOAA Atlas: The Central North Atlantic Ocean Basin and Continental Margins: Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Resources, including the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse (TAG)doi:10.1016/0016-7037(81)90177-0Geoffrey ThompsonElsevier LtdGeochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta...
Map c/o Peter Sloss, NGDC, NOAA. - click to enlarge (210Kb) These basically form a single sinuous spreading rift zone, but offset at intervals by transform faults, breaking it into sectors. It begins at about 87 deg N in the Arctic Ocean and winds down parallel more or less to the ...
Abyssal Mixing in the Brazil Basin One of the major objectives of the Deep Basin Experiment, a component of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, was to quantify the intensity and spatial ... MY Morris,MM Hall,LCS Laurent,... - 《Journal of Physical Oceanography》 被引量: 1480发表: 2000...
currents towards the equator. Thedeepest pointof the Ocean lies in thePuerto Rico Trenchat 8,380 meters. The average depth of the Ocean is about 3,300 and 4,000 meters with and without its adjacent seas respectively. Thecontinental shelvesform about 11% of the floor of the Atlantic basin....