current patterns
How streams move
Current patterns are the characteristic ways that water, air, or electricity moves through a medium.
Ocean current patterns determine climate and marine navigation.
Electrical current patterns show how charge flows through circuits.
The phrase also describes prevailing trends or recurring behaviors: We're studying current patterns in consumer spending.
- eddiesCounter-flowing circular currents
- downwellingFluid sinking from surface
- gyresRotating circular movements
- ocean currentsLarge-scale seawater movement
- waveOscillating motion through medium
jet streams · flow · rush · chaos theory · tidal currents · rip tide · sweep · fractals · power grid · monsoons · feedback loops · generational shifts · trend lines · drift · swirl · surge · economic cycles · ripples
- Atlantic mapsnautical charts, sea charts, navigation charts, coastal maps, North Atlantic
- ocean datasalinity, currents, wave height, sea temperature, water temperature
- aquatic zonescoastal zones, marine habitats, aquatic habitats, continental shelf, deep sea
- tidal phenomenahigh tide, low tide, ebb tide, flood tide, spring tide
- tideshigh tide, low tide, ebb tide, tides, flood tide
- fishing lorefish story, fish tales, fish tale, fish stories, tall tale
FLOW vs. STAGNATION
current patternsstagnant water
Unmoving pooled liquid
still water · standing water · stagnation · dead water · dead zones