Azores Current
The Azores Current is a warm ocean current in the northern subtropical Atlantic Ocean . It arises as a branch of the Gulf Stream ; about a quarter of the water mass of the Gulf Stream flows along the 30th to 38th parallel to the east. Southeast of the Azores, the now somewhat cooled Azores Current feeds a large part of the Canary Islands .
literature
- Hans Leip: The great river in the sea . Swiss printing and publishing house, 1954.
- John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, Karl K. Turekian: Ocean Currents: A Derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences . Academic Press, 2009.
- Wolfgang Krauß: Collaborative Research Center 133 Warm Water Sphere of the Atlantic - A Documentation . In: Reports from the Institute for Oceanography at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . tape 258 . Institute for Oceanography, Kiel 1994, p. 129pp ., Doi : 10.3289 / ifm_ber_258 .