If you zoom out to look at the patterns of surface currents all over the Earth, you’ll see that they form big loops called gyres, which travel clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere. That’s because of the way the Earth’s rotation affects th...
The winds push the ocean beneath them into the same rotating gyres. 流动的大气推动其下的海水形成了同样的流涡。 And because water holds onto heat more effectively than air, 因为水比大气更容易吸收热量, these currents help redistribute warmth around the globe. 所以洋流促进了热量在全球范围内的流动。
Boundary currents and ocean gyres are important elements in heat transport on Earth; they fundamentally control the Earth’s climate. The Kuroshio Current is a major western boundary current in the western Pacific Ocean; it plays a key role in distributing heat from the tropics to the mid-latitu...
The winds push the ocean beneath them into the same rotating gyres. 流动的大气推动其下的海水形成了同样的流涡。 And because water holds onto heat more effectively than air, 因为水比大气更容易吸收热量, these currents help redistribute warmth around the globe. 所以洋流促进了热量在全球范围内的流动。