Circulation thermohaline

Thermohaline circulation - part of the large-scale ocean circulation that is driven by global density gradients created by surface heat and freshwater fluxes. Article “Circulation thermohaline” in French Wikipedia has 43.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 66 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Circulation thermohaline” was edited by 1 authors in French Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Circulation thermohaline”, its content was written by 98 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 959 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 255 times in French Wikipedia and cited 3120 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #3188 in June 2013
• Global: #7386 in November 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #24075 in August 2021
• Global: #35509 in February 2008

There are 37 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		71.503
2	Chinese (zh) 溫鹽環流		65.7636
3	Catalan (ca) Circulació termohalina		48.0599
4	Turkish (tr) Termohalin döngü		46.3975
5	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		43.4544
6	Malay (ms) Peredaran termohalin		35.7983
7	Hebrew (he) המסוע הימי		29.5003
8	Esperanto (eo) Oceana transportbendo		26.2171
9	Basque (eu) Zirkulazio termohalino		25.9108
10	Greek (el) Θερμόαλη κυκλοφορία		25.7132

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Circulation thermohaline" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		2 888 006
2	German (de) Thermohaline Zirkulation		576 813
3	Spanish (es) Circulación termohalina		351 161
4	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		335 076
5	Japanese (ja) 熱塩循環		298 020
6	Chinese (zh) 溫鹽環流		237 881
7	Italian (it) Circolazione termoalina		152 967
8	Dutch (nl) Thermohaliene circulatie		124 896
9	Russian (ru) Термохалинная циркуляция		120 274
10	Portuguese (pt) Circulação termoalina		96 484

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Circulation thermohaline" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		5 795
2	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		1 538
3	Chinese (zh) 溫鹽環流		1 090
4	German (de) Thermohaline Zirkulation		953
5	Japanese (ja) 熱塩循環		667
6	Spanish (es) Circulación termohalina		436
7	Dutch (nl) Thermohaliene circulatie		341
8	Italian (it) Circolazione termoalina		293
9	Russian (ru) Термохалинная циркуляция		279
10	Korean (ko) 열염순환		239

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Circulation thermohaline" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		261
2	German (de) Thermohaline Zirkulation		105
3	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		98
4	Italian (it) Circolazione termoalina		63
5	Dutch (nl) Thermohaliene circulatie		53
6	Japanese (ja) 熱塩循環		36
7	Finnish (fi) Termohaliinikierto		32
8	Russian (ru) Термохалинная циркуляция		27
9	Spanish (es) Circulación termohalina		22
10	Polish (pl) Cyrkulacja termohalinowa		22

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Circulation thermohaline" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		2
2	German (de) Thermohaline Zirkulation		1
3	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		1
4	Russian (ru) Термохалинная циркуляция		1
5	Arabic (ar) دورة حرارية ملحية		0
6	Belarusian (be) Тэрмахалінная цыркуляцыя		0
7	Catalan (ca) Circulació termohalina		0
8	Czech (cs) Termohalinní výměník		0
9	Danish (da) Den termohaline cirkulation		0
10	Greek (el) Θερμόαλη κυκλοφορία		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Circulation thermohaline" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Thermohaline circulation		538
2	Arabic (ar) دورة حرارية ملحية		281
3	French (fr) Circulation thermohaline		255
4	Persian (fa) گردش دماشوری		221
5	Ukrainian (uk) Термогалінна циркуляція		213
6	German (de) Thermohaline Zirkulation		154
7	Chinese (zh) 溫鹽環流		141
8	Portuguese (pt) Circulação termoalina		102
9	Italian (it) Circolazione termoalina		95
10	Japanese (ja) 熱塩循環		93

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic دورة حرارية ملحية
be	Belarusian Тэрмахалінная цыркуляцыя
ca	Catalan Circulació termohalina
cs	Czech Termohalinní výměník
da	Danish Den termohaline cirkulation
de	German Thermohaline Zirkulation
el	Greek Θερμόαλη κυκλοφορία
en	English Thermohaline circulation
eo	Esperanto Oceana transportbendo
es	Spanish Circulación termohalina
et	Estonian Termohaliinne tsirkulatsioon
eu	Basque Zirkulazio termohalino
fa	Persian گردش دماشوری
fi	Finnish Termohaliinikierto
fr	French Circulation thermohaline
gl	Galician Circulación termohalina
he	Hebrew המסוע הימי
hr	Croatian Termohalinska pokretna traka
id	Indonesian Arus termohalin
it	Italian Circolazione termoalina
ja	Japanese 熱塩循環
ko	Korean 열염순환
lt	Lithuanian Termohalinė cirkuliacija
ms	Malay Peredaran termohalin
nl	Dutch Thermohaliene circulatie
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Termohalin sirkulasjon
no	Norwegian Termohalin sirkulasjon
pl	Polish Cyrkulacja termohalinowa
pt	Portuguese Circulação termoalina
ru	Russian Термохалинная циркуляция
sh	Serbo-Croatian Termohalinska pokretna traka
sr	Serbian Термохалинска покретна трака
sv	Swedish Termohalin cirkulation
tr	Turkish Termohalin döngü
uk	Ukrainian Термогалінна циркуляція
vi	Vietnamese Luân chuyển nhiệt muối
zh	Chinese 溫鹽環流

Best Rank

French: #24075 08.2021

Global: #35509 02.2008

Best Rank

French: #3188 06.2013

Global: #7386 11.2010

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