Ocean surface currents have shaped the enormous garbage pile for decades, funneling human-made debris into a region that extends for hundreds of thousands of square miles in the North Pacific ...

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or ...

In the Pacific, the Kuroshio Current also transports warm, tropical water into the productive temperate oceans of the mid-latitudes. Where the continental shelf nears the poleward-flowing Kuroshio, ...

Some of the fastest ocean currents in the world have been discovered off South Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar. These can be used to generate energy.

For example, Pacific Ocean currents have been measured since 1979 but the Indian Ocean currents have only been measured since 1994. Also, most of these high-energy areas are located in relatively ...

The monument is in the northern Pacific Ocean and surrounded by what is known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a huge gyre of floating plastic and other debris that circulates in ocean currents.

It forms part of the global ocean "conveyor belt" connecting the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans. The system regulates Earth's climate and pumps water, heat and nutrients around the globe.

Historically, the ocean has been difficult to model. Scientists struggled in years past to simulate ocean currents or accurately predict fluctuations in temperature, salinity, and other properties.