Sentences with phrase «gyres producing»

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

Not exact matches

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

13 Gyres Vertical columns or mounds of water at the surface and flow around them Produce enormous circular currents Five major locations: North Pacific - clockwise South Pacific - counterclockwise Indian Ocean - counterclockwise South Atlantic - counterclockwise North Atlantic - clockwise

Nine leading non-profit conservation organizations — 5 Gyres Institute, Algalita, Californians Against Waste, Clean Production Action, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Responsible Purchasing Network, The Story of Stuff Project, Surfrider Foundation, and UPSTREAM Policy — joined together to produce the Plastics BAN (Better Alternatives Now) List, a series of reports that identify the world's most dangerous plastics in order to better protect our oceans and environment.

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).