North Equatorial Current

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Noun1.North Equatorial Current - an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator
equatorial current - any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator
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Hu, "Revisit the interannual variability of the North Equatorial current transport with ECMWF ORA-S3," Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol.
Improvement of ocean state estimation by assimilating mapped Argo drift data
Retroflection eddies appear to carry a significant volume of South Atlantic water northward into the North Atlantic, short-circuiting the longer route around the gyre formed by the North Equatorial Countercurrent and the North Equatorial Current. Each eddy transports about a million cubic meters of water per second; three eddies per year account for as much as a quarter of the total northward transport in the upper limb of the thermohaline (temperature and salinity driven) circulation cell.
Giant eddies of South Atlantic Water invade the North: disrupted flow and swirling waters
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