Keyword

ocean currents

Description: Ocean currents are sustained movements of seawater that transport heat, nutrients, and other materials through the world's oceans.

Primary topic: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes (61%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q129558

OpenAlex ID: keywords/ocean-currents

Variation of O18 content of waters from natural sources

1953 · S Epstein, T Mayeda · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 3,216

Tracers in the Sea

1982 · Wallace S. Broecker, Tsung‐Hung Peng · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2,101

Observations of the 40–50-Day Tropical Oscillation—A Review

1994 · Roland A. Madden, Paul R. Julian · Monthly Weather Review · 1,905

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Journal of Marine Research

1938 · Cbuan Shi, Doron Nof · Nature · 1,700

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On the influence of the earth's rotation on ocean-currents.

1905 · V. Walfrid Ekman · 1,641

Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography

2014 · Elsevier eBooks · 1,597

The Great Ocean Conveyor

1991 · Wallace Broeker · Oceanography · 1,301

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Climate change and changes in global precipitation patterns: What do we know?

2005 · Mohammed H.I. Dore · Environment International · 1,130

Recent Observed Interdecadal Climate Changes in the Northern Hemisphere

1990 · Kevin E. Trenberth · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 1,105

Marine Hydrodynamics

1977 · J. N. Newman · The MIT Press eBooks · 1,058

Responses of Marine Organisms to Climate Change across Oceans

2016 · Elvira S. Poloczanska, Michael T. Burrows, et al. · Frontiers in Marine Science · 1,057

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Evaluation of the ECMWF ocean reanalysis system ORAS4

2012 · Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Kristian Mogensen, et al. · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 1,020

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10.1016/0967-0653(94)91736-1

2000 · Matthias Tomczak, J. S. Godfrey · Time to knit · 978

On the Wind-driven Ocean Circulation

1950 · Walter H. Munk · Journal of Meteorology · 960

Mechanisms of long-distance seed dispersal

2008 · Ran Nathan, Frank M. Schurr, et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 907

Factors Influencing Biodiversity and Distributional Gradients in Mangroves

1998 · Norman C. Duke, Marilyn C. Ball, et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters · 848

Ocean Circulation and Tropical Variability in the Coupled Model ECHAM5/MPI-OM

2006 · J. H. Jungclaus, N. Keenlyside, et al. · Journal of Climate · 834

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Reproductive strategies of coastal marine fishes in the tropics

1978 · Robert E. Johannes · Environmental Biology of Fishes · 799

Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities

2015 · Jennifer R. Brum, J. Cesar Ignacio-Espinoza, et al. · Science · 785

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Atlantic Air-Sea Interaction

1964 · J. Bjerknes · Advances in geophysics · 773

Surface Climate Variations over the North Atlantic Ocean during Winter: 1900–1989

1993 · Clara Deser, Maurice L. Blackmon · Journal of Climate · 760

Brominated flame retardants in the Arctic environment — trends and new candidates

2009 · Cynthia A. de Wit, Dorte Herzke, et al. · The Science of The Total Environment · 747

Larval Transport and Dispersal in the Coastal Ocean and Consequences for Population Connectivity

2007 · Jesús Pineda, Jonathan Hare, et al. · Oceanography · 711

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World ocean atlas 2009

2010 · Sydney Levitus, Ricardo A. Locarnini, et al. · 694

The South Atlantic: Present and Past Circulation

1996 · Gerold Wefer, W. H. Berger, et al. · Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) · 689

Works count: 53,830

Citation count: 287,600