Peru Ocean Current
It is an eastern boundary current similar to the california current of the north pacific.
Peru ocean current. The current is an eastern boundary current which flows towards the equator extending approximately 310 620 miles offshore. Relatively slow and shallow it transports only 350000000700000000 cu ft 1000000020000000 cu m of water per second. The humboldt current is an ocean current that flows northwards along the western coastline of south america and into the southeast pacific ocean.
The humboldt current also called the peru current is a cold ocean current of low salinity that flows in the north west direction along the coast of south america. The humboldt current also called the peru current is a cold low salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of south america. The humboldt current is named after the prussian naturalist alexander von humboldt.
The cold low salinity ocean current is also referred to as the peru current. The peru oceanic current also called the humboldt current is a wide slow speeds to 20 cm per sec stream carrying the relatively cold 150 200c waters of the temperate latitudes from the west wind drift to the equator. The humboldt current was named after a prussian naturalist called alexander von humboldt.
In 1846 von humboldt reported measurements of the cold water current in his book cosmos.