the intensified western boundary current of the cyclonic gyre, called the 「dongsha current」 in this paper, flows southwestward next to the shelf south of china.
a new study suggests that a blast akin to one that devastated iceland in the 1780s would waft noxious gases southwestward and kill tens of thousands of people in europe.
a river rising in north-central spain and flowing about 772 km (480 mi) westward then southwestward along the spanish-portuguese border. it enters the atlantic ocean at oporto.