Sentences with phrase «gyre on»

5 Gyres began studying the problem in 2008, and in 2009 completed our first Expedition — a 2,600 - mile, 88 - day journey from California to Hawaii through the North Pacific Gyre on the Junk Raft, a vessel build from 15,000 plastic water bottles.

Hatun H., Sandø A.B, Drange H., Hansen B. & Valdimarsson H. (2005) «Inlfuence of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre on the Thermocline Circulation», Science, vol 309, 1841 - 1844

Hatun H., SandØ A.B., Drange H., Hansen B. & Valdimarsson H. (2005) «Influence of the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre on the Thermocline circulation», Science, vol 309, 1841 - 1844

She tells me the way it works is that singers up North holler songs into an enormous metal cone, whereupon their voices are scarified in a thin gyre on a wax cylinder the size of a bean can.

Their calculations helped us create a scaled model of the gyre on our play field using the plastic bags collected from the week.

Low solar activity spins up the north and south Pacific gyres on decadal and much longer timescales.

Not exact matches

In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.

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If you trawl a fine mesh net through any of the globe's five subtropical gyres — giant ocean vortexes where currents converge and swirl unhurriedly — you will haul on deck a muddle of brown planktonic goop, the occasional fish, squid or Portuguese man - of - war — and, almost certainly, a generous sprinkling of colourful plastic particles, each no larger than your fingernail.

«In the central North Pacific Gyre, pieces of plastic outweigh surface zooplankton by a factor of 6 to 1,» according to a report based on Moore's research.

On track, for these turtles, means following a warm, food - rich current system known as the North Atlantic gyre.

On a cruise in the North Pacific Gyre, Røy et al. (p. 922) discovered that oxygen occurred for tens of meters into the sediment.

The rest floats; much of it ends up in gyres and the massive garbage patches that form there, with some plastic eventually washing up on a distant shore.

As may be expected from the positions of ocean currents, most mixing in the upper layers of the ocean takes place on the western boundaries of ocean gyres where the current speeds are greatest.

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).

Researchers at the Algalita Marine Research Foundation documented an increase in plastic debris in the Central Pacific Gyre five-fold between 1997 and 2007, where the baseline in 1997 showed plastic pieces outnumbered plankton on the ocean surface 6:1.4 Photo courtesy NOAA.

The Indian Ocean Garbage Patch on a continuous ocean map centered near the south pole The Indian Ocean garbage patch, discovered in 2010, is a gyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gygyre of marine litter suspended in the upper water column of the central Indian Ocean, specifically the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of the five major oceanic gyGyre, one of the five major oceanic gyres.

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In an email chat, Yair Rosenthal of Rutgers University and Braddock Linsley of Columbia University, whose related work was explored here in 2013, said the Argo analysis appeared to support their view that giant subtropical gyres are the place where heat carried on currents from the tropics descends into the deeper ocean.

Thus this isobar gradient is able to have a far larger impact on the total transport through the broad eastern side of the gyre than it is on the very narrow western side of the gyre.

this doesn't in itself discredit the AGW model, but it certainly should put a damper on the most recent gyre of hysteria vis - a-vis the recently rapidly melting arctic icecap.

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

Conceptually, it's hard to see how the Gulf Stream western boundary current could be weakened by conditions around Greenland; this is a fluid dynamics system, not a mechanical «belt»; a backup due to less deep water formation should have little effect on the physics of the gyre and the formation of the western boundary current, and it also seems the tropical warming and the resulting equator - to - pole heat transport are the drivers — but perhaps modulation by jet stream meandering is playing some role in the cooling?

Click on this slide show for a zooming look at «Gyre,» his effort to bring meaning to the diffuse and distant problem of plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean.

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The definite answer on whether this is the case or if the garbage patch in the South Pacific is smaller than previous ones will come when we reach the center of the gyre in a couple of days.

Drexel Environmental Science Graduate Student [ANDY REVKIN says: Some of the sea ice on the Arctic Ocean kind of circles in a gyre, like a slow turntable, and much of it is ejected perpetually past Greenland into the North Atlantic by winds and currents.

While it's hard to imagine floating across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on a raft made of complete junk to raise awareness of all that plastic floating in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the truth is that the guys risking life and

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To get a glimpse of what was going on in the dark, the researchers looked at samples from two subtropical gyres, or systems of rotating ocean currents, in the South Atlantic and North Pacific.

5 Gyres also did a study on compostable plastics, that you can read about here.

5 Gyres has historically supported efforts to help change this reality — in 2017 we partnered with The Lonely Whale Foundation on Strawless Ocean, an initiative that harnesses celebrity power to encourage everyone to #stopsucking.

The Transpolar Drift and Beaufort Gyre formerly brought new ice into the main pack and exported old ice - mainly on the Atlantic side through Fram Strait.

As part of the Every Kid in a Park Initiative, 5 Gyres worked with the United States Forest Service to educate 2,000 4th graders in Los Angeles and Hawaii on the plastic pollution issue and how it affects our public lands.

The 5 Gyres Institute, a leading research organization focusing on plastic pollution in the world's oceans, recently discovered microbeads on a research expedition in the Great Lakes, where they found as many as 466,000 microplastics per square kilometer.

What follows next depends on the winds — and factoring in Ekman transport — driving the north and south Pacific Ocean gyres.

The EAC starts on the west edge of the South Pacific gyre where it collects warm, nutrient poor water.

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

The circulation to the south on the southern rim of the subtropical gyre is completed by the westward - flowing North Equatorial Current, part of which flows into the Gulf of Mexico; the remaining part flows northward as the Antilles Current.

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

As for Antarctic sea ice, that's very interesting and very likely related to the wind trends and their effect on the polar gyres.

Ocean gyres spin up on the surface through winds and planetary rotation.

Decadal variations in the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation are characterized by a pattern of sea surface temperature anomalies that resemble the central Pacific El Niño, a dominant mode of interannual variability with far - reaching effects on global climate patterns5, 6, 7.

We study this low - frequency variability of the winddriven, double - gyre circulation in mid-latitude ocean basins, via the bifurcation sequence that leads from steady states through periodic solutions and on to the chaotic, irregular flows documented in the observations.

Rather, while the ocean may be doing something to the surface energy budget in parts of the subpolar gyre in coupled models, its effect on the AMO is small compared to the stochastic atmospheric forcing.

This article elaborates on the multi-year aspects of the formation of salt sinking in the sub-polar gyre.

I was on a sailboat with a team of maverick researchers from the 5 Gyres Institute trying to answer a simple question about plastic pollution: «How much is out there?»

A negative SAM spins up the South Pacific gyre transporting cold Southern Ocean water north and facilitating upwelling on the Peruvian coast.

This media - friendly statistic emerged in a 2016 report on the «circular economy,» a concept embraced by 5 Gyres in which plastic products are better designed to never become waste, but to be perpetually used or recycled.