Sentences with phrase «because gyres»

Because gyres are systems of circulating currents, they result in marine debris accumulation at their centers.

The AHT and the transport in the oceanic gyres are positively correlated, because the gyre transport responds to the atmospheric winds, so militating against long - term variability involving the wind - driven flow.

Not exact matches

However, in a column of mud from the North Pacific Gyre, an area 1000 kilometers north of Hawaii, the researchers detected oxygen stretching down to 28 meters because the microbial community was too sparse to consume it all.

This is to be expected because the spin - up of the wind - driven ocean circulation speeds up the currents (Ekman transport) which carry heat out of the tropics in the near - surface layers toward the subtropical ocean gyres.

Because of ocean currents and winds, a large chunk of the gyre's trash now eventually lands on the shores of the Hawaiian archipelago.

Given that the answer to this for atmospheric models is a resounding «NO» (particularly because of sub-grid scale processes which need to be effectively pre-ordained through parameterizations), and given that oceanic circulations have much longer adjustment time scales, yet also have much more intense small scale (gyre) circulations than the atmosphere, my instinct is that we are not even close to being able to trust ocean models without long term validation data.

The last timeframe in the Sub-polar Gyre was not published in Curry & Mauritzen's paper because they had very little data from the western Sub-polar Gyre in that period — the volume budget would therefore be biased towards the salty eastern atlantic, where the warm, salty subtropical waters reside.

The amount of warm water entering the Irminger Current is particularly limited because the sub-Polar gyre also shunts the pole - ward transport to the east towards the Barents Sea.

Surface water is transported to the subtropical gyres because of the winds drag on the sea surface.

Because of the energy of the subtropical gyre and its associated currents, these short - term fluctuations have little influence on it, however.

Gyres in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are similar except that they rotate in opposite directions because the Coriolis effect acts in opposite directions in the two hemispheres.

The boats can be retrofitted to deal with any environmental disaster at sea where it's difficult or dangerous to send human workers: The original vision — pre-Deepwater — was for the boats to head the Pacific Gyre and pick up trash in nets, because it seems that no human is ever going to lift a finger to clean it up.

That's because while the North Pacific gyre has trash coming from North America, China, Japan and Asia coming to one gyre, the South Pacific has the coast of South America, Polynesia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Australia, which might not be contributing garbage in the same amounts.