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A glider, or sailplane, is a streamlined aircraft designed to glide through the air on thermal currents.
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Motorless flight powered by naturally rising air currents through thermal convection, convergence and orthographic lifting.
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A subsurface current is an oceanic current that beneath surface currentshttp://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=subsurface-current1. Examples include the Equatorial Undercurrents of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian ...
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Leszek Kolakowski was a photographer perhaps best known for his political piece Main Currents of Marxism, which offered analysis of Marxism.
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Boundary currents are ocean currents with dynamics determined by the presence of a coastline, and fall into two distinct categories: western boundary currents and eastern boundary currents.
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An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of ocean water generated by the forces acting upon this mean flow, such as breaking waves, wind, Coriolis force, temperature and salinity ...
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Spitsbergen current is the northernmost part of the North Atlantic Current. It separates from the Norwegian Current in the area of Norwegian abyssal plain. It is the most northern of ...
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The Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is located in an area of the Pacific called the North Pacific Gyre, at which four major ocean currents meet and form a giant ...