Sentences with phrase «gyres in»

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel - based projects is coming — a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmentalists warn could make smog worse in communities already breathing air pollution from fracking, sicken workers, and expand the plastic trash gyres in the world's oceans.

Gyres in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are similar except that they rotate in opposite directions because the Coriolis effect acts in opposite directions in the two hemispheres.

This media - friendly statistic emerged in a 2016 report on the «circular economy,» a concept embraced by 5 Gyres in which plastic products are better designed to never become waste, but to be perpetually used or recycled.

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.

Roemmich et al (2007) suggest that mid-latitude gyres in all of the oceans are influenced by decadal variability in the Southern and Northern Annular Modes (SAM and NAM respectively) as wind driven currents in baroclinic oceans (Sverdrup, 1947).

In the northern hemisphere the land masses prevent this and the ocean circulation is broken into smaller gyres in the Atlantic and Pacific basins.

What if the climate shifts to cooler conditions in the next climate shift due in a decade driven by UV / ozone chemistry, polar surface pressure and sub-polar gyres in amplifying a dimming sun.

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.

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Their work, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, did find millions of pieces of plastic debris floating in five large subtropical gyres in the world's oceans.

A feasibility study published in 2014 estimated that such a boom could clean up half the plastic in the gyres in only 10 years — but at cost of about # 300 million.

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.

An island of floating plastic garbage twice the size of Texas is trapped within the current gyre in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean.

The last timeframe in the Sub-polar Gyre was not published in Curry & Mauritzen's paper because they had very little data from the western Sub-polar Gyre in that period — the volume budget would therefore be biased towards the salty eastern atlantic, where the warm, salty subtropical waters reside.

The definite answer on whether this is the case or if the garbage patch in the South Pacific is smaller than previous ones will come when we reach the center of the gyre in a couple of days.

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.

Rather, while the ocean may be doing something to the surface energy budget in parts of the subpolar gyre in coupled models, its effect on the AMO is small compared to the stochastic atmospheric forcing.

Check out all of Chris Jordan's amazing photos from his journey to the Pacific gyre in Planet Green's slideshow:

Not exact matches

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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.

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She sees faint gyres of dust in the hot upper air.

Rainbow Light is partnering with NGO 5 Gyres to combat plastics pollution in the ocean.

What we witnessing is turning and turning in a widening gyre, where the falcon can not hear the falconer.

Last month researchers from the 5 Gyres Institute in Santa Monica, California, and the Algalita Marine Research Foundation in Long Beach, California, sailed into Piriápolis, Uruguay.

«We realised that our buoys are in fact a kind of marine debris,» says Nikolai Maximenko of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, who collaborated with 5 Gyres researchers to identify which areas of the ocean should have especially high levels of plastic pollution.

Rochman wants to see whether fish caught in highly polluted areas of the gyres have more plastic in their guts and higher levels of POPs than those taken from less polluted waters.

They had just completed the third leg of the first expedition ever to study plastic pollution in the South Atlantic subtropical gyre.

More surprising is that despite the lure of the gyres, the buoys — and, therefore, probably plastic in general — really get around.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

SeaWiFS data show that photosynthesizing organisms have declined in certain ocean gyres (large - scale surface current patterns), said Jim Yoder, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in a NASA article commemorating the end of SeaWiFS's mission.

The report adds that every square mile of ocean is home to nearly 50,000 pieces of litter, much of which tends to harm or kill wildlife that either ingests the plastic or gets trapped in discarded netting, which is just as common in the Northern Gyre as discarded soda bottles.

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.

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.

CSIC researcher Carlos Duarte, coordinator of the Malaspina Expedition, states: «Our results show that the high concentration of plastic is not a unique feature of the Nort Pacific, but occurs in each of the subtropical gyres.»

«In the central North Pacific Gyre, pieces of plastic outweigh surface zooplankton by a factor of 6 to 1,» according to a report based on Moore's research.

But near the southern coast, most turtles swam south - west, even though swimming south would have kept them in the gyre.

To find out how the turtles remain within the gyre, Ken Lohmann of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues made hatchlings swim in the presence of magnetic fields that simulated locations off Portugal, by which the gyre passes.

Astronomers believed this gyre was altering the jet stream's course, much in the same way a large rock would change a nearby river's path.

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 bleachinIn 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 bleachinin Indonesia, for instance, upwelling and ocean gyres bring cool water that has allowed fragile corals to escape bleaching.

Eriksen said a company spokesperson told 5 Gyres they will phase out microbeads in products by 2017.

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.

On a cruise in the North Pacific Gyre, Røy et al. (p. 922) discovered that oxygen occurred for tens of meters into the sediment.

However, in a column of mud from the North Pacific Gyre, an area 1000 kilometers north of Hawaii, the researchers detected oxygen stretching down to 28 meters because the microbial community was too sparse to consume it all.

Here we report that hatchling loggerheads, when exposed to magnetic fields replicating those found in three widely separated oceanic regions, responded by swimming in directions that would, in each case, help keep turtles within the currents of the North Atlantic gyre and facilitate movement along the migratory pathway.

Those living below 20 meters in the sediments of the North Pacific Gyre are consuming oxygen at a rate of 0.001 micromoles of oxygen per liter of sediment per year, the team reports online today in Science.

The rest floats; much of it ends up in gyres and the massive garbage patches that form there, with some plastic eventually washing up on a distant shore.

Southerly katabatic winds and coastal currents produced the circulation field and retentive gyre shown in (a).

High concentrations of microplastics have been found in five oceanic gyres (the North Atlantic, South Atlantic, South Indian, North Pacific and South Pacific gyres).