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How does unequal heating of Earth help to develop ocean current patterns like the Gulf Stream?

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Uneven heating of Earth creates global winds that form three separate bands in each of the northern and southern hemispheres.

The Coriolis effect acting on these currents causes northern hemisphere gyres to move in a clockwise direction and southern hemisphere gyres to move in a counterclockwise direction

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