Timeline for Why is the Ocean water on the west Coast so cold comparing to the East coast?
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| Jul 20, 2015 at 9:35 | comment | added | makra | @JarethHolt You should also consider coastal upwelling that is related to Ekman transport and which brings deeper (and therefore) colder water to the surface. The Humboldt current at the Peruan coats is one good example. Deep and cold water is also nutrient-rich which turns this regions into flourishing marine environments. | |
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| Jul 7, 2015 at 13:06 | comment | added | Jareth Holt | @userLTK It's related to that! Sverdrup balance says that the torque that winds exert on a column of water -- which would normally change its angular momentum -- is balanced by the water moving poleward or equatorward to adjust the Coriolis component of its angular momentum. Thus total angular momentum is roughly conserved, until the flow meets a western boundary current and friction takes over. | |
| Jul 7, 2015 at 9:18 | comment | added | userLTK | I'm going to throw this out there. That looks a lot like the Coriolis effect, (cept for at the poles and the Equatorial Counters), upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/… You probobly knew that. :-) | |
| Jul 5, 2015 at 10:46 | history | answered | Jareth Holt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
