North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre In oceanography...
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The Indian Ocean gyre, located in the Indian Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres, large systems of rotating ocean currents, which together form...
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Great Pacific garbage patch (redirect from North Pacific Trash Gyre)
Pacific garbage patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W...
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Currents of the Arctic Ocean Baffin Island Current – Arctic Ocean current Beaufort Gyre – Wind-driven ocean current in the Arctic Ocean polar region East Greenland...
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The Southern Pacific Gyre is part of the Earth's system of rotating ocean currents, bounded by the Equator to the north, Australia to the west, the Antarctic...
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Atlantic Gyre of the Atlantic Ocean is one of five great oceanic gyres. It is a circular ocean current, with offshoot eddies and sub-gyres, across the...
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Pacific Gyre (NPG) or North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), located in the northern Pacific Ocean, is one of the five major oceanic gyres. This gyre covers...
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The Beaufort Gyre is one of the two major ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean. It is roughly located north of the Alaskan and Canadian coast. In the past...
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Sargasso Sea (redirect from North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre)
Sargasso Sea (/sɑːrˈɡæsoʊ/) is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. Unlike all other regions called seas, it has no...
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Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre The Indian Ocean garbage...
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North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre The clockwise...
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Boundary current (redirect from Gyre boundary currents)
Western intensification applies to the western arm of an oceanic current, particularly a large gyre in such a basin. The trade winds blow westward in the...
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The Weddell Gyre is one of the two gyres that exist within the Southern Ocean. The gyre is formed by interactions between the Antarctic Circumpolar Current...
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Kuroshio Current (redirect from Japanese Ocean Current)
North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre The Kuroshio...
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Gyre is one of three gyres that exists within the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, the others being the Weddell Gyre and Balleny Gyre. The Ross Gyre...
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Outline of oceanography (section Ocean gyres)
Atlantic Gyre – The subtropical gyre in the south Atlantic Ocean South Pacific Gyre – A major circulating system of ocean currents Weddell Gyre – One of...
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Benguela Current (redirect from Benguela ocean current)
/bɛŋˈɡɛlə/ is the broad, northward flowing ocean current that forms the eastern portion of the South Atlantic Ocean gyre. The current extends from roughly Cape...
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North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre North Atlantic gyre Indian Ocean gyre North Pacific gyre South Pacific gyre South Atlantic gyre A few elements...
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The South Atlantic Gyre is the subtropical gyre in the south Atlantic Ocean. In the southern portion of the gyre, northwesterly (or southeastward-flowing)...
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Rossby waves. Water circulation in the Indian Ocean is dominated by the Subtropical Anticyclonic Gyre, the eastern extension of which is blocked by the...
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systems. Its ocean system consists of a funnel shaped floating barrier which is towed by two ships. The ocean system is deployed in oceanic gyres to collect...
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Marine plastic pollution (redirect from Ocean plastic)
source. At the ocean surface, plastic debris is concentrated within circular structures of large areal extent, called ocean gyres. Ocean gyres form within...
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current (redirect from Southern Ocean Gyre)
The current creates the Ross and Weddell Gyres. The ACC connects the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and serves as a principal pathway of exchange...
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Look up gyre or gire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An ocean gyre is any large system of rotating ocean currents in oceanography. Gyre or gire may...
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Message in a bottle (redirect from Uncorker of Ocean Bottles)
(from 1808–1852) to study travel of so-called "bottle papers" around an ocean gyre (a large circulating current system). In the late 1800s, Albert I, Prince...
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Subtropical Gyre (NPSG) is the largest contiguous ecosystem on earth. In oceanography, a subtropical gyre is a ring-like system of ocean currents rotating...
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South Pacific garbage patch (category Pacific Ocean)
ocean with increased levels of marine debris and plastic particle pollution, within the ocean's pelagic zone. This area is in the South Pacific Gyre,...
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Wild fisheries (section Gyres and upwelling)
to consume them and cause them to enter the ocean food chain. In samples taken from the North Pacific Gyre in 1999 by the Algalita Marine Research Foundation...
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with oceanic subtropical high pressure circulations. The Ross Gyre and Weddell Gyre are two gyres that exist within the Southern Ocean. The gyres are located...
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Garbage patch (category Ocean currents)
A garbage patch is a gyre of marine debris particles caused by the effects of ocean currents and increasing plastic pollution by human populations. These...
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