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Ocean gyres are large rotating systems of currents in the oceans. They act like giant whirlpools, moving water in a circular motion. These gyres help distribute heat around the Earth and also affect weather patterns and the movement of marine life and debris. Full definition

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Characteristic features of «accelerated warming decades» are anomalous cooling on the surface of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre (a clockwise circulating gyre south of Greenland), and cooling of all the subtropical ocean gyres as they begin to spin - down in response to the weak wind - forcing. (skepticalscience.com)
In Ocean Gyre Circulation Changes Associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) Curry (2001) created a Transport Index illustrating the correlation between the pole - ward transport of warm tropical water and the North Atlantic Oscillation. (landscapesandcycles.net)
Reductions in seafloor POC flux will be most drastic, on a percentage basis, in the oceanic gyres and equatorial upwelling zones, with the northern and southern Pacific Ocean and southern Indian Ocean gyres experiencing as much as a 32 — 40 % decline in POC flux (Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3). (elementascience.org)
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