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These are the only real photos of the area of highest concentration in the gyre.
From the guardian.co.uk
It is part of the North Pacific gyre, and a continuation of the Aleutian Current.
From the newscientist.com
He says the Atlantic gyre has an exit strategy in the form of the Gulf Stream.
From the newscientist.com
Nitrate supply from deep to near-surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre.
From the sciencedaily.com
Thus, gyre learning and memory are relative to the gyradaptive singularity.
From the scienceblogs.com
Went to see the Degas show at the Royal Academy and was just swept along in the gyre.
From the guardian.co.uk
The gyre of commerce is churning again, it seems, and Durham may be its primary locus.
From the techcrunch.com
Chortle has stayed with us, while galumph appears to have gone the way of gyre and gimble.
From the nytimes.com
In the widening gyre the greatest of them have splintered into matchwood.
From the economist.com
- Coil: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- A gyre in oceanography is any large system of rotating ocean currents, particularly those involved with large wind movements. ...
- (The gyres) The Gyres were a band formed in the 1990s in Blantyre near Glasgow, just before the Britpop explosion.
- A swirling vortex; a circular current, especially a large-scale ocean current; to whirl
- Similar to eddies, gyres are typically much larger, often on the scale of entire ocean basins.
- A circular motion. Generally refers to a circular current system centered in the subtropical high-pressure region of a major ocean basin.*
- A gyration, or circular or spiral movement, within a medium; applied to movement at the margins of ocean currents.
- Basin-scale ocean horizontal circulation pattern with slow flow circulating around the ocean basin, closed by a strong and narrow (100-200 km wide) boundary current on the western side. ...
- A circular motion of water with a diameter of 1000s of kilometers (larger than an eddy)
