Great Ocean Conveyor Belt

A Dictionary of Weather | 2001 | Copyright

Great Ocean Conveyor Belt (GOC) The principal subsurface oceanic circulation system. It is a thermohaline circulation, primarily driven by the intense evaporation and cooling that occurs in the North Atlantic. This creates a downwelling of dense, saline

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