Guinea Current


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Related to Guinea Current: Canary Current, Oyashio Current
(Geog.) a current in the Atlantic Ocean setting southwardly into the Bay of Benin on the coast of Guinea.

See also: Guinea

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The eastward-flowing Guinea Current transports low-salinity warm water (Binet & Marchal 1993), favouring upwelling during its summer intensification (Philander 1979).
The authors would like to thank the crew of the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen for excellent working conditions, and the administration of the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) for letting us participate in their cruises.
Four new species of Turbonilla (Gastropoda, Pyramidellimorpha, Turbonillidae) from the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa
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