Sentences with phrase «major ocean gyres»

All five of the Earth's major ocean gyres are inundated with plastic pollution.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Indian Ocean Garbage Patch There are trash vortices in each of the five major oceanic gyres.

Most of the Atlantic Ocean exhibits warming with a major exception being the subarctic gyre.

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After I read the Hatun et al paper I thought the major point of the paper was that ocean circulation and the subpolar gyre is an important but little understood factor in the THC and more research in the area was needed.

«The ocean's five major gyres, giant swirling currents, often trap this debris, turning the ocean into a toxic plastic soup.»

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