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North Atlantic Current
Sign in to savepowerful warm western boundary current in the north Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward
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- Instance of
- ocean current
- Part of
- North Atlantic Gyre
- Body of water
- Atlantic Ocean
- Image
- North Atlantic currents.svg
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- different from
- Gulf Stream
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Encyclopedic overview
The North Atlantic Current is the first leg in the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre
The North Atlantic Current (NAC), also known as North Atlantic Drift and North Atlantic Sea Movement, is a powerful warm western boundary current within the Atlantic Ocean that extends the Gulf Stream northeastward.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “North Atlantic Current” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.