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East Greenland current

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noun

  1. a cold ocean current of low salinity flowing south along the east coast of Greenland.

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Also visible are the topographic features related to the Transpolar Drift, which routinely moves sea-ice across the Arctic from the Russian side of the basin; and the East Greenland Current that carries much of the ice that gets exported towards the Atlantic.

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