A gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. Gyres are caused by the Coriolis effect; planetary vorticity along with horizontal and vertical friction, determine the circulation patterns from the wind curl (torque). The term gyre can be used to refer to any type of vortex in the air or the sea, even one that is man-made, but it is most commonly used in oceanography to refer to the major ocean systems.
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The rotating energy of this gyre is transferred to the ocean, where waves blow over miles, piling up into mammoth swells. A channel on the PacificOcean floor magnifies these waves, which can reach up to 50 feet high.
As a child, I didn’t question the rule that the Christmas decorations should go up on Christmas Eve and come down again at Epiphany...In general, I have absorbed the awful lessons of plastic waste – the hideous ocean gyres and entangled turtles ... .
As a child, I didn’t question the rule that the Christmas decorations should go up on Christmas Eve and come down again at Epiphany...In general, I have absorbed the awful lessons of plastic waste – the hideous ocean gyres and entangled turtles ... X Icon.
A 2023 study found coastal species living on 70 percent of samples collected from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, an ocean current that is also a concentrated site of debris including plastic.
Here, Netherlands-based outfit The OceanCleanup has a huge net-fringed boom that uses ocean currents to herd in plastic from the surface of this gyre in the North Pacific... The Ocean Cleanup estimates ...
That includes a weather pattern known as the Central AmericanGyre. The gyre is a sprawling area of low pressure that feeds off moisture streaming in from the PacificOcean and forms near or over Central America.
The gyre is a sprawling area of low pressure that feeds off moisture streaming in from the PacificOcean and forms near or over Central America...Gyre forms but no tropical development ... Low develops on the eastern side of the gyre, but in the Caribbean.
... a large area of floating plastic debris between the California coastline and Hawaii in the North PacificGyre, one of five major ocean gyres – and one of five offshore accumulation zones of plastic.
The 'goal of it is to strengthen California's leadership on microplastics,' said Alison Waliszewski, of 5 Gyres, an antiplastic advocacy group, by 'empowering' state agencies such as the Ocean...
These plastics accumulate in the sea and whirl around one of five oceanic gyres — regions where currents push water (and its plastic face) in an inward circular motion, trapping it in the center.
But until now, climate models have not been able to peer closely at the AMOC, including its many streams and gyres and inputs ... As "low resolution" models, they can miss smaller physical features, such as eddies and gyres in the ocean.
Plastic was groundbreaking when it was invented a century ago. I remember my mother having Tupperware parties in the 1960s to show off and sell the new cutting-edge reusable food storage system ... Five ocean garbage patches, or gyres, exist in our seas.
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Whereas all other seas on the planet are defined by at least one land boundary, the Sargasso Sea, which exists within the Northern Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, gets its boundaries from ocean currents ... Other seaweeds reproduce on the ocean floor.
Oelwein Daily Register
31 Oct 2024
Oelwein Daily Register
31 Oct 2024
