ocean current

Summary

ocean current ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,104 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• ocean current is a type of current^[2].
• ocean current is a type of natural geographic object^[3].
• ocean current is a type of fluid mechanics^[4].
• ocean current is part of ocean^[5].
• ocean current is part of sea^[6].
• ocean current's Commons category is recorded as Ocean currents^[7].
• ocean current's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ocean currents^[8].
• ocean current's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[9].
• ocean current's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• ocean current's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[11].
• ocean current's topic has template is recorded as Template:Ocean^[12].
• ocean current's topic has template is recorded as Template:Infobox ocean current^[13].
• ocean current's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000147^[14].
• ocean current's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[15].
• ocean current's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics^[16].
• ocean current's characteristic of is recorded as sea water^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include current^[2], natural geographic object^[3], and fluid mechanics^[4].

Use and Application

Part of include ocean^[5] and sea^[6].

Why It Matters

ocean current ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,104 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[18] It is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[19]