Mention the factors responsible for the origins of ocean currents and name the currents of the Atlantic Ocean.

Factors responsible for origin

• Prevailing winds are the primary generator of surface currents: trade winds drive the equatorial currents; westerlies drive the eastward drift of mid-latitudes.
• Planetary vorticity and the Coriolis force turn moving water to the right in the north and to the left in the south, building subtropical gyres rather than straight wind drift.
• Temperature and salinity differences create density (thermohaline) contrasts; sinking of cold, salty water in the North Atlantic is the deep limb of the conveyor, not only a surface curiosity.
• Evaporation, precipitation, ice melt, and river inflow modify salinity and therefore density-driven motion, especially in high latitudes and enclosed seas.
• Continental configuration, submarine ridges, and the narrowness of passages (Florida Strait, Drake Passage analogues on other oceans) steer and intensify western boundary currents.
• Gravity, pressure-gradient force, and friction with the seafloor and adjacent layers close the force budget; tides matter more for local tidal streams than for the great gyres.

Currents of the Atlantic Ocean

• North Atlantic subtropical gyre: North Equatorial Current, Antilles and Caribbean flow into the Gulf Stream, then the North Atlantic Drift (North Atlantic Current), the Canary Current, and the southward close of the gyre.
• South Atlantic subtropical gyre: South Equatorial Current, Brazil Current, South Atlantic (westerly) Current, and the cold Benguela Current along south-west Africa.
• Cold equatorward or polar limbs and branches: Labrador Current, East Greenland Current, Falkland (Malvinas) Current, and the Canary and Benguela already named.
• Equatorial and connecting flows: Atlantic Equatorial Counter Current between the two equatorial currents; Guinea Current along the north Gulf of Guinea; the warm Gulf Stream–North Atlantic Drift is the famous heat pump toward north-west Europe.
• Deep Atlantic: North Atlantic Deep Water as the sinking, southward deep current of the thermohaline circulation, distinct from the surface names but part of origin physics.

Naming without mixing oceans

• Humboldt, Kuroshio, and Agulhas are Pacific or Indian; the Atlantic list above is the one the question asks to name.
• A fair answer therefore pairs wind-Coriolis-density-basin factors with the North and South Atlantic gyre names plus Labrador, Falkland, Guinea, and the deep NADW limb.