World Oceans

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Pacific Ocean , stretching almost all the latitudinal climatic zones, the maximum width reaches the tropics and subtropics, and this is due to the predominance of this tropical and subtropical climate. Abnormalities in the distribution of climatic zones and local differences within them due to the peculiarities of the underlying surface (warm and cold currents) and the degree of influence of the surrounding continents emerging over them atmospheric circulation.
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The geographical position. Indian Ocean located entirely in the eastern hemisphere between Africa – in the west of Eurasia – in the north, Sunda Islands , and Australia – in the east, Antarctica – in the south.Indian Ocean to the southwest is widely reported from the Atlantic Ocean and the south-east – withthe Pacific . The coastline is broken weakly. In the ocean, eight seas , there are large gulfs. Islands are relatively few. The largest of them are concentrated near the coasts of continents.
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It turns out that even long-dead leaves of trees and shrubs continue to drink our moisture, participating in the great water cycle in nature. and the matter is this. We know that the rains are the cause of dust, bearing in saturated humidity air. They have become centers of condensation (precipitation water) – they form water droplets, which then spilled to the ground as rain. After a series of studies, scientists have concluded that most of the dust particles, condensation of moisture from the air – the remains of fallen and rotting leaves, blown by winds in the atmosphere.
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Among the Sargasso Sea and the Strait of U.S. coasts Floridskoto northeast flow is faster. In addition, near the island of Newfoundland, which takes its direction from west to east, and tends to Europe, all this huge influx, given the general name of the Gulf Stream, is "During the Gulf ", which means Mexico. This flow of tropical waters of America, leaving the temperate latitudes of Europe, largely determines the climate, so that life is not only the North Atlantic, but the vast spaces of temperate and polar latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere especially the Eurasian continent. It is because the Gulf Stream Europe has a warm temperate climate and has become the promised land of civilization, despite its position not far north. However, it would be wrong to consider the Gulf Stream as a whole and compare it to something big river in the ocean. He is not a "source ", and most do not receive water from the bay, and from the Atlantic. Meet and mix (not mix) to the Gulf with the current West Indies, to the other side of the Greater Antilles, there are around 30 * north latitude. And of course , going to Europe for – is not the thread that comes out of the strait between Florida and Cuba. Therefore, its northern extension is called the North Atlantic Current. blue waters of the Gulf Stream are replaced by more and more green.
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The Greenland ice sheet is located on the world’s largest island, Greenland. Of 2 million 186 thousand km2 of the island more than 1 million 700 thousand km2, or 79%, hidden under this cover, a further 100 km2 occupied by smaller glacial complexes. Ice sheet consists of two domes – a very large northern in a relatively small southern. Their rise to the surface of the axial lines, domes, arches forming an “elongated in the meridional direction.  North dome rises to 3,8 thousand meters above sea level, the top of the south – to 2,8 thousand meters With regard to the glacial bed, then it is, on the contrary, concave: the edges of its frame the coastal hills and mountainous and the rock interiorarea submerged for hundreds of meters below sea level.
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