太平洋的简介英语

太平洋 Pacific Ocean 大西洋 Atlantic Ocean印度洋 Indian Ocean 北冰洋 Arctic Ocean 举一反三，四大洋都可以记住了

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.25 million square kilometres (63.8 million square miles) in area, this largest division of the World Ocean – and, in turn, the hydrosphere – covers about 46% of the Earth's water surface and about one-third of its total surface.[1] The equator subdivides it into the North Pacific Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, with two exceptions: the Galápagos and Gilbert Islands, while straddling the equator, are deemed wholly within the South Pacific.[2] The Mariana Trench in the western North Pacific is the deepest point in the Pacific and in the world, reaching a depth of 10,911 metres (35,797 ft).[3]The Pacific Ocean was sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century, first by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa who crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). Its current name was given by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered calm seas during the journey and called it Tepre Pacificum in Latin, meaning "pacific" or "peaceful sea".[4]The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about 106,400,000 square kilometres (41,100,000 sq mi), it covers approximately twenty percent of the Earth's surface and about twenty-six percent of its water surface area. The first part of its name refers to Atlas of Greek mythology, making the Atlantic the "Sea of Atlas".The oldest known mention of "Atlantic" is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC (Hdt. 1.202.4): Atlantis thalassa (Greek: Ἀτλαντὶς θάλασσα; English: Sea of Atlas); see also: Atlas Mountains. The term Ethiopic Ocean, derived from Ethiopia, was applied to the southern Atlantic ocean as late as the mid-19th century.[1][2] Before Europeans discovered other oceans, the term "ocean" itself was synonymous with the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar that we now know as the Atlantic. The Greeks believed this ocean to be a gigantic river encircling the world.The Atlantic Ocean occupies an elongated, S-shaped basin extending longitudinally between the Americas to the west, and Eurasia and Africa to the east. As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean (which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south. (Other definitions describe the Atlantic as extending southward to Antarctica.) The equator subdivides it into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean.The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface.[1] It is bounded on the north by the Indian subcontinent; on the west by East Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, by Antarctica). The ocean is named after India.[2][3][4][5]As one component of the interconnected global ocean, the Indian Ocean is delineated from the Atlantic Ocean by the 20° east meridian running south from Cape Agulhas, and from the Pacific by the meridian of 146°55' east.[6] The northernmost extent of the Indian Ocean is approximately 30° north in the Persian Gulf. The Indian Ocean has asymmetric ocean circulation[citation needed]. This ocean is nearly 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi) wide at the southern tips of Africa and Australia; its area is 73,556,000 square kilometres (28,350,000 sq mi),[7] including the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.The ocean's volume is estimated to be 292,131,000 cubic kilometres (70,086,000 mi3).[8] Small islands dot the continental rims. Island nations within the ocean are Madagascar, the world's fourth largest island; Reunion Island; Comoros; Seychelles; Maldives; Mauritius; and Sri Lanka. The archipelago of Indonesia borders the ocean on the east.The Arctic Ocean, located in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Arctic north polar region, is the smallest, and shallowest of the world's five major oceanic divisions.[1] The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea or simply the Arctic Sea, classifying it as one of the mediterranean seas of the Atlantic Ocean.[2] Alternatively, the Arctic Ocean can be seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World Ocean.Almost completely surrounded by Eurasia and North America, the Arctic Ocean is partly covered by sea ice throughout the year[3] (and almost completely in winter). The Arctic Ocean's temperature and salinity vary seasonally as the ice cover melts and freezes;[4] its salinity is the lowest on average of the five major oceans, due to low evaporation, heavy freshwater inflow from rivers and streams, and limited connection and outflow to surrounding oceanic waters with higher salinities. The summer shrinking of the ice has been quoted at 50%.[1] The US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) uses satellite data to provide a daily record of Arctic sea ice cover and the rate of melting compared to an average period and specific past years.

Pacific. Atlantic. The Indian Ocean. Arctic Ocean

亚洲:Asia 欧洲：Europe 非洲：Africa 拉丁美洲：Latin America/South America 北美洲：North America 大洋洲：Oceania 南极洲：Antarctica 大西洋:Atlantic Ocean 太平洋：Pacific Ocean 印度洋：Indian Ocean 北冰洋：Arctic Ocean

the Pacific

Pacific due to the vast, uniform water, climate is conducive to the formation of planetary wind systems, especially the South Pacific is more prominent. In the North Pacific, East-West differences in the east and west coasts, the winter of Russia's east coast and Canada's British Columbia, the most moderate winter contrast. The trade wind belt is located between 30 ° -40 ° north-south latitude of the eastern Pacific and between the center of the subtropical high and the equatorial wind-free zone. In the mid-latitudes, the westerlies and polar winds converge to form sub-polar low-pressure zones. Two wind with temperature and humidity difference between the polar, polar wind front is very violent, especially in winter. Western Pacific (5 ° -25 ° north latitude) The east of the Philippines, the South China Sea and the East China Sea, between summer and autumn, under high temperature and high humidity conditions, the formation of ultra-low pressure center, the formation of violent tropical storm, the typhoon. Summer Asia continent is low pressure, the North Pacific airflow to the mainland movement, the opposite situation in winter, forming a vast monsoon climate zone. The temperature of the waters of the North Pacific is higher than that of the South Pacific because of the wider waters of the South Pacific and the influence of icebergs and cold water masses in the Antarctic. The salinity of sea water in the trade wind belt is lower than that in the equatorial zone. The salinity near the equator is less than 34; the salinity in the northernmost area is the lowest, less than 32. Pacific Ocean currents in the trade winds from east to west under the influence of the formation of the north and south equatorial warm. South and North equatorial warm currents on the central axis between the opposite equatorial countercurrent flow from the east coast of the Philippines to Ecuador West Bank. The northern equatorial warm current in the Philippines near the north to the east of Japan, for the famous Kuroshio; the northern equatorial warm tributaries of the Strait of Ma into the Sea of Japan, said the warm horse. Kuroshio turned to the east near 160 ° E, called the North Pacific warm current. North Pacific warm eastward movement, to the west coast of North America to the south, called the California cold. This forms the North Pacific circulation. In addition, the Bering Sea flows southward, known as the Kamchatka cold, also known as the pro-tide, the flow east of the island of Honshu, latitude 36 ° near the Kuroshio encounter. South Equatorial warm arrived in the Solomon Islands, the flow south to become Eastern Australia warm, folded east wind wandering into the west to South America, west, 45 ° near the south is divided into two, one to the east through the Drake Strait into the Atlantic Ocean ; Another branch to the north stream, that is, Peru cold. This forms the South Pacific circulation.