Sentences with phrase «indian ocean gyres»

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).

The pattern the water circulation forms in that region is called the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of five of the major ocean gyres of the world that scientists have identified so far.

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 gyres.

These range from few years (Beaufort gyre 4 years, Circumpolar current 8 years, Indian ocean gyre 10 years, N. Atlantic subpolar gyre 20 years etc.) up to above 100 years for some of the Pacific gyres, and finally the great ocean conveyor belt estimated at ~ 1600 years.

Not exact matches

Indian Ocean Garbage Patch There are trash vortices in each of the five major oceanic gyres.

The demonstration vessel seen below is our «Proof of Concept» boat that has shown we can harvest plastic and other waste from the 5 garbage Gyres in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and (via third parties) recycle that waste into clean diesel fuel for shipping and new plastic products.

13 Gyres Vertical columns or mounds of water at the surface and flow around them Produce enormous circular currents Five major locations: North Pacific - clockwise South Pacific - counterclockwise Indian Ocean - counterclockwise South Atlantic - counterclockwise North Atlantic - clockwise

When the tropical easterly trade winds strengthen, as they have from the year 2000 onwards, this whole wind - driven ocean circulation becomes more vigorous, the South Pacific subtropical gyre spins up, and the western arm of the gyre exports more tropical water through the Indonesian archipelago into the Indian Oocean circulation becomes more vigorous, the South Pacific subtropical gyre spins up, and the western arm of the gyre exports more tropical water through the Indonesian archipelago into the Indian OceanOcean.

Subtropical gyres are centered near 30 degrees latitude in the North and South Atlantic, the North and South Pacific, and the Indian Ocean.

It's our fifth day on the Sea Dragon, the sailboat that's taking a crew of 13 people on an expedition with the 5 Gyres project to find out if the South Pacific presents the same plastic pollution found in the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South Atlantic.

Although there's no information on what we're going to find in this gyre, there are some variables that make this one different from the previous ones 5 Gyres did through the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and South Atlantic.