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Gulf Stream

Oceanography

A warm, swift western boundary current that carries tropical Atlantic water up the North American coast and across toward Europe, moderating the climate of northwest Europe. Benjamin Franklin published one of its first charts in 1770 to explain why mail ships sailing against it ran slow, making it among the earliest ocean currents studied systematically. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Magnitude or Scale
Transports roughly 30 million cubic meters of water per second through the Florida Straits, strengthening severalfold as it crosses the North Atlantic 1
Location
North Atlantic Ocean, from the Straits of Florida along the North American east coast toward northwest Europe 1
Connections

Associated With

Thermohaline Circulation, Processes

Wind driving and the global overturning circulation both feed the Gulf Stream; its northern extension carries part of the overturning's warm upper limb.

Source Gulf Stream (Wikipedia)

Caused By

Thermohaline Circulation, Processes

Read from this phenomenon's own Wikipedia article (Gulf Stream); earth5 pass cause judgment: Thermohaline Circulation.

Source Wikidata: Gulf Stream

In Discipline

Oceanography, Disciplines
Source Gulf Stream (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Same As

Gulf Stream

Also in Geography Atlas: the same subject.

Found In

Europe

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Gulf Stream (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Gulf Stream (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
  • In Group: Ocean Currents and Circulation, Lead sentence
    The Gulf Stream is a warm and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico and flows through the Straits of Florida and up the eastern coastline of the United States, then veers east near 36°N latitude (North Carolina) and moves toward Northwest Europe as the North Atlantic Current.
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Wikidata: Gulf Stream
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