Sentences with phrase «sea gyre»

In 2012, a new record low was established, and a contributor to this was an unusually warm current that merged with the Beaufort Sea Gyre.

Not exact matches

In previously ice - rich areas such as the Beaufort Gyre off the Alaskan coast or the region south of Spitsbergen, the sea ice is considerably thinner now than it normally is during the spring.

There's plastic trash littering «the Bay of Bengal, the Mediterranean Sea, the coast of Indonesia, all five subtropical gyres; coastal regions, enclosed bays, seas and gulfs.»

At threshold sedimentation rates of 1 millimeter per 1000 years, the low rates of microbial community metabolism in the North Pacific Gyre allow sediments to remain oxygenated tens of meters below the sea floor.

In other paintings like Gyre (2014) a fish leaping from the frothing sea inhaling plastic household objects is a reference to the vast trash vortex in the North Pacific.

Each year enough is thrown away to circle the earth 4 times, with some 10 - 20 million tons reaching the ocean where it harms sea life, kills birds and contributes to the famous plastic gyre.

Or the fish jumping from the sea in Gyre (2014), either inhaling or vomiting the stream of household trash in which it swims.

«It is believed that in the late 1950s and early 1960s, freshwater and sea ice accumulated in the Beaufort Gyre as a consequence of the prevailing Arctic atmospheric circulation patterns (anti-cyclonic around an Arctic high pressure center.)

Hatun et al. also used altimeter data (local sea level height measurements from satellite observations) to diagnose the norther oceans gyre circulation.

The warm sea surface temperatures in the gyres, during hiatus decades, indicate convergence of near - surface currents and strong downwelling of heat.

Everything ends up in the sea eventually, pretty much, as witness our oceanic «plastic gyres».

Although the main focus of the 5 Gyres Institute is to determine the spacial distribution of plastic in the world's oceans (finding out what's the distribution and concentration of plastics in the sea), in their trawls the scientists extract samples of lantern fish.

Apparently gyres may have been reducing the rise in sea level along the coasts as the climate warms even though the overall sea level was rising — and much of the sea level rise that we attributed to earlier in the twentieth century may actually have happened later in the twentieth century.

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.

Curiously, very little of the ice seems to be moving west along the archipelago, towards the Beaufort sea polynya, which I would expect from the action of the Beaufort Gyre.

When the NAO first enters a negative phase the sub-Polar gyre contracts towards the west, allowing more warm water to enter the Irminger Sea.

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.

The sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies that define the AMV are characterized by a basin - scale pattern that has the same sign over the whole North Atlantic, with a maximum loading over the subpolar gyre region.

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

Not only has the AMOC slowed down (Cunningham et al [2013]-RRB-, but sea surface temperatures in North Atlantic subpolar gyre have begun falling, as have sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific subtropical gyre - best illustrated by the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) being strongly positive this year.

We can observe the gyre in the Beaufort Sea, offshore of the Canadian and Alaskan coasts as well as the ice flux leaving the Arctic Ocean through the Fram Straight, between Greenland and the Svalbard archipelago.

Some of the warm water would be subducted by Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation / Thermohaline Circulation, some would be carried by ocean currents into the Arctic Ocean where it would melt sea ice, and the remainder would be spun southward by the North Atlantic gyre toward the tropics so it could be warmed more by the effects of the slower - than - normal trade winds.

The June outlook reflects the fact that winds during the last two weeks have reversed the flow of the buoys and sea ice in the Beaufort Gyre and Transpolar Drift Stream, slowing export and sequestering sea ice in the Arctic.

Major features are southwestward advection of older sea ice into the Beaufort Gyre and southwestward advection of different sea ice types toward Fram Strait in the Transpolar Drift.

Cumulative ice motions for April — July 2008 derived from drift buoys indicate the overall transport of ice out of the Beaufort Sea around the Beaufort Gyre to the central Arctic was actually much stronger than in 2007, but it appears to be converging (motion is slowing) over the Amundsen and Nansen Basins.

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

A shift in the Beaufort Gyre towards less recirculation of ice within the Arctic Basin is partly responsible for the younger pack in the southern and western Beaufort Sea.

Long - term changes in atmospheric circulation have resulted in an increased amount of perennial sea ice being exported through Fram Strait rather than being recirculated (e.g., Beaufort Gyre); this was what set up the 2007 record September minimum.

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.

But it's not limited to the gyres; studies estimate there are 15 — 51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor.

Five major sea current gyres are correlated with the dominant wind flows.

The flow of freshwater from the northern continents represents an export to the world ocean that goes almost entirely into the Atlantic, about 5.1 Sv passing as relatively low salinity water through the passages between Greenland and Ellesmere Island into the Labrador Sea, a flow of low salinity water that can subsequently be traced around the subpolar gyre.

The outgoing flow through Fram Strait carries with it large volumes of fresh water as fragmented pack ice, a flow that is strongly episodic at decadal scale and is associated with the series of so called Great Salinity Anomalies observed within the circulation of the subarctic gyre and in the Nordic seas that were discussed in the previous chapter.

In the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, ice distribution mimicks the Beaufort Gyre circulation pattern with advection of ice from the high Canadian Arctic into the Beaufort Sea and export of ice northward in the Chukchi Sea.

In response to your question I would refer you to my comment above Dave Wendt (14:39:39): where I discuss the Rigor and Wallace paper of 2004 which demonstrated that the decline in sea ice age and thickness began with a shift in state in Beaufort Gyre and the TransPolar Drift in 1989 which resulted in multiyear ice declining from over 80 % of the Arctic to 30 % in about one year and that the persistence of that pattern has been responsible for the continuing decline.

This transport produces a broad mounding of water as high as 1 m (3 ft) above mean sea level near the center of the gyre (Figure 6.5).

Eventually, the outward - directed pressure gradient force balances the apparent force due to the Coriolis effect and the water parcels flow around the gyre and parallel to contours of elevation of sea level.

Andrey Proshutinsky, Sarah Zimmermann, Tim Kane, and Luc Rainville of the 2007 Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project cruise on the Louis St. Laurent for dropping XCPs in the Beaufort Sea.

Closer to the continent, easterly winds form a series of clockwise gyres (most notably in the Ross and Weddell seas) that form the westward - flowing Antarctic Coastal Current [1]--[4].

The Sun is involved, other CO2E gases, particulates, weather phenomena, ocean gyres, plants, plankton, albedo, sea ice extent, salt concentration of sea water..

Any circular water flow will tend to push water in towards it's center - sea levels are higher at the centre of the gyres as a result.

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.

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.

They found that in the last 40 years the amount of discarded plastics has led to a 100-fold rise in plastic particles in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (Great Pacific Garbage Patch) and is causing creatures like the sea skater (Halobates sericeus) to alter their behaviour due to changes in habitat.

Using Topex / Poseidon sea - surface height data, the researchers inferred Labrador Sea water in the core of the gyre warmed during the 199sea - surface height data, the researchers inferred Labrador Sea water in the core of the gyre warmed during the 199Sea water in the core of the gyre warmed during the 1990s.