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“The relationship between the winds and the currents is best seen in the Indian Ocean.” Justify.
Ocean surface currents are, at their root, wind-driven phenomena: the frictional drag of wind blowing across the sea surface sets water in motion, and V.W. Ekman (1905) showed that this motion is not simply "along the wind" — Coriolis deflection turns each successive sub-surface layer further from the wind direction, producing a spiralling Ekman spiral,…
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- The General Wind-Current Mechanism
- The Indian Ocean's Unique Monsoon-Driven Reversal
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