Sentences with phrase «gyres bring»
In the northern Mozambique channel and the Raja Ampat archipelago in Indonesia, for instance, upwelling and ocean gyres bring cool water that has allowed fragile corals to escape bleaching.
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This year, the machine will bring back its first collection from the North Pacific Gyre, which has about 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic trash swirling around inside it.
How's this for widening the brief: contemporary composer Max Richter's new version of Vivaldi's Baroque masterpiece The Four Seasons, brought to life by puppetry company Gyre & Gimble, in a candle - lit Jacobean - style theatre?
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.
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.
5 Gyres, The Island School, Cape Eleuthera Institute, Jack Johnson and All at Once partnered together to bring 75 local Bahamian, American, and international students to the Cape Eleuthera Institute for a 3 - Day Youth Action Island Summit in the Summer of 2015.
But see my post above about the spinning up if the gyres, as it is a another way that warm water is brought to depth in the Pacific and it fluctuates with ENSO and PDO frequencies.
Stronger easterlies in the Pacific spin up the gyres in both hemispheres and Ekman pumping in those regions intensifies, bringing warmer surface waters to depth.
ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) variability is linked to the spinning up or down of the South Pacific gyre — as it brings more or less cold Southern Ocean water northward — along the Peruvian coast — to more or less... Continue reading →
ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) variability is linked to the spinning up or down of the South Pacific gyre — as it brings more or less cold Southern Ocean water northward — along the Peruvian coast — to more or less displace warm surface water and initiate upwelling.
Coastal and equatorial upwelling bring an enormous amount of DIC to the surface, with subsequent transport to the gyres of the open ocean, causing declines in open ocean surface pH at rates that are much faster than possibly attributed to atmospheric diffusion.
Our friends at 5 Gyres are also bringing awareness to the link between climate change and plastic pollution on their new page!
Since phytoplankton form the base of marine food webs, the world's most productive fisheries are located in areas of coastal upwelling that bring cold nutrient rich waters to the surface (especially in the eastern boundary regions of the subtropical gyres); about half the world's total fish catch comes from upwelling zones.