ESS200A
Prof. Jin-Yi Yu
Six
Great Current Circuits in the World Ocean
q 5 of them are geostrophic
gyres:
North Pacific Gyre
South Pacific Gyre
North Atlantic Gyre
South Atlantic Gyre
Indian Ocean Gyre
q The 6th and the largest current:
Antarctic Circumpolr Current
(also called West Wind Drift)
(Figure
from Oceanography by Tom Garrison)