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The sunlight goes some way towards heating the Arctic, but heat also comes from the south with ocean currents and airstreams. One branch of the Gulf Stream, called the North Atlantic Current, flows along the coast of Norway and continues all the way to the Arctic Ocean. There it shifts its name to the West Spitsbergen Current, and almost 60 % of the water entering the Arctic Ocean comes with this.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: ocean current(noun) the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction. ocean current(Noun) Any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.