Sentences with phrase «gyre during»

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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.

And I am thinking of this in light of the Pacific Garbage Gyres... How much junk was washed out into «invisibility», during Ike?

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

5 Gyres lead students in citizen science and educational efforts during two Summer Camp Programs, reaching over 50 students directly and close to 600 people (parents, staff and the local community) indirectly.

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.

During a 2012 5 Gyres expedition, we found plastic microbeads — tiny round microplastics used in personal care products — in the Great Lakes in an open - water setting.

On the other hand, during the negative phase of the AO (Arctic Oscillation), water motion in the Arctic Ocean is anticyclonic and the Beaufort gyre is strengthened, so that ice is retained and thickened both in the Canada Basin and along the Siberian coastline, where it may survive summer melting.

During times when the Beaufort gyre dominates, ice spins in place and accumulates.

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

During the altimeter period the observed 0 - 700 meter ocean heat content (OHC) in the subpolar gyre mirrors the increased SSH by its dominantly positive trend.

Stronger tropical easterly trade winds during La Nina - dominant periods (negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation [PDO]-RRB- will lead to stronger Ekman pumping in the ocean gyres.

You read it right, a melting season that saw mostly cloudy conditions during the sunniest period of the year (June - July - August) has beaten the 2007 melting season which went astonishingly low after weeks of ceaseless sunshine and a massive Beaufort Gyre, continuously compacting the ice pack, well into September.

After experiencing the impact of our consumer society on our environment first - hand during my recent sailing trip with the 5 Gyres project, visiting miles of ocean trash, the question hit me: Why can't we get away from our ridiculous consumption of dispos

During the summers of 2012 and 2013, chemist Sherri Mason led a team of researchers from the U.S. - based 5 Gyres Institute to measure the quantity of microplastics in the waters of the Great Lakes.

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