Sentences with word «gyre»

This subtropical gyre of warm North Atlantic Central Water is the hub of the energy that drives the North Atlantic circulation.

Such accumulation zones are created when large amounts of floating plastic debris are caught by ocean currents and concentrate in the centre of gyre systems.

To figure out how much refuse is floating in those garbage patches, four ships of the Malaspina expedition, a global research project studying the oceans, fished for plastic across all five major ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011.

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.

The SIZRS 150W line is also shown in context (map), with monthly ice edges, salinity from PHC3.0 climatology, and a dashed circle indicating the typical position of Beaufort Gyre circulation.

We are reporting monthly time series of surface temperature, salinity and density in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre in 1993 — 2017 from hydrographical data collected in particular from thermosalinographs on board selected ships of opportunity.

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.

In 2008 the predicted existence of a floating mass of pelagic plastic, a giant Garbage Patch, was confirmed in the stable waters of the North Atlantic gyre where plastic debris is accumulating over an area estimated to be twice the size of Texas.

In the Atlantic subtropical gyre circulations also enhance.

As Cooper's work heads to Boston, one can not help but think that his impact as an artist is following the widening gyre of his paintings.

No wonder it's been a bit of a heart - wrenching dilemma, knowing that these caps end up in landfills, or worse, floating in some oceanic gyre as plastic bits.

When our sixth grade students learned about the North Pacific Plastic Gyre, they shared their discoveries with our first grade classes.

For example, could unresolved mesoscale eddies create more energetic multi-decadal variations in the wind driven gyres by cascading energy to larger scales?

Winds and great ocean gyres spin up in negative phases of the polar annual modes.

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

With the Valdivia forest surrounding us and a bright sky above us, we finally set sail joining the 5 Gyres project in the last of a series of expeditions to explore plastic pollution in the ocean.We got to the boat on Wednesday and had the proper introduction to all things related to life on the sea, including a tour of the Sea Dragon - the sailing boat that is taking us -, our duties on board, crew etiquette and alike.

And the observed warming of the oceans shows heat penetrating down to the depths, in ocean basins, at the latitudes occupied by gyres (large slowly rotating masses of water).

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

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

Ocean currents have been carrying floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades.

Plastic as we all know floats, allowing currents to move trash deposited at sea to calm areas called Gyres where ocean currents cross and change direction.

A large Beaufort Gyre which covers most of the Arctic Ocean during the 1980s, and a transpolar drift stream shifted towards the Eurasian Arctic.

Intensified circulation in subtropical gyre systems enhances upwelling and productivity in the California and Peru systems.

But the NAO has switched phases twice in the 1990s, while the subpolar gyre current has continued to weaken.

The South Atlantic subtropical gyre seems still to be in a spun - up state.

Have you ever wanted to see an ocean trash gyre for yourself?

No, the plastic island in the North Pacific Gyre doesn't actually exist.

Plastic pollution in our oceans and lakes is a big problem, with discarded plastics forming gyres bigger than states.

North Pacific and North Atlantic subarctic gyre circulations enhance with sinking waters associated with the northern North Atlantic winter.

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.

Wind - driven circulation, which is strongest in the surface layer of the ocean, is the more vigorous of the two and is configured as large gyres that dominate an ocean region.

The Pacific gyres bring more or less cold from sub-polar regions to upwelling regions on the coast — warm surface water is displaced allowing cold water upwelling from the deep oceans to initiate.

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.

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.

Chelsea Rochman, who studies marine ecology and ecotoxicology at San Diego State University in California, joined the 5 Gyres team in November for a month - long trawl in the South Atlantic.

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.

The lesson of the Pacific Gyre Garbage Patch: Out of sight is not out of mind.

They assimilate organic waste and carry eroded soil and plastic bits out to the floating garbage gyres.

Note in particular the northern and southern Pacific gyres at the start of the video.

suggest increased transport is due to the spin - up of the subtropical gyre during the persistent positive NAO and reduced transport follows a spin - down during persistent NAO - conditions.

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

Low solar activity spins up the great ocean gyres producing more frequent La Niña and a cooler northeastern Pacific (more upwelling)-- and vice versa.