Why Earth's Spin Creates the Ocean's Most Powerful Currents

Added: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]All of this movement starts with physics.

[00:00:04]Because the earth is spinning, the water feels something called the Coriolis effect.

[00:00:09]This pushes some [music] of the strongest currents like the Gulf Stream and the East Australian Current against the east side of the continents.

[00:00:17]>> [music] >> Because these currents wind up on the west side of the ocean basins they sit in, scientists call them western boundary currents.

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