Talk:Ocean current

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This page doesn't appear to be a stub so much as lacks a few bits of information. Most noticeable is the cause of the ocean currents, and their applications in navigation, but otherwise, I wouldn't call it much of a stub. Yet, the ocean currents are very important! Ocean current are constantly going, they never stop. ocean currents are also everywhere you look.

Shouldn't this article include the thermohaline circulation? I'm not an oceanographer, but it appears to be pretty important to the the oceans. It should also have it's own heading, maybe? Worldwide? Sword 21:57, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

This article is a looong way from being inclusive or complete - Marshman 03:53, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) Or do you mean move the article thermohaline circulation over here? I'd say no, as that article is in good shape and well along. But a link to there, or even (as you suggest) a brief paragraph here with perhaps its own heading should be made - Marshman 03:55, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)? UTC???? What's that?

[edit] Current Maps

Does it really need three maps aside the article (the third of which is merely an enhanced version of the second)?

Super Jedi Droid 00:14, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Should there be a newer current map, if possible 2007?

User:Fredlu Dec. 1

[edit] Earth's magnetic field and Ocean Currents

I would like to see a discussion about the interaction between the Earth's magnetic field and ocean currents.

[edit] Map - shift

Since the major circulations have an interaction between the Atlantic and Pacific through the Indian Ocean, with relatively hardly any flow south of America, wouldn't a standard (European) map with America at the left make more sense? I know that distorts the US more, but that's hardly relevant here. And, a more general argument, it doesn't cut through continents the way these maps do. Amrad (talk) 11:11, 16 May 2008 (UTC)