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Gyre meaning
A swirling vortex. | A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn. | Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
Example sentences (16)
A clockwise warm-water gyre occupies the northern Atlantic, and a counter-clockwise warm-water gyre appears in the southern Atlantic.
To the south of the gyre NADW flows under the Gulf Stream where it continues along the DWBC until it reaches another gyre in the subtropics.
Examples of floating plastics collected in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre during The Ocean Cleanup's 2018 expedition.
Those tipping points are the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the mass die-off of warm-water coral reefs, the thawing of Arctic permafrost, and the collapse of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre circulation.
On Tuesday night, voters rejected his politics of the widening gyre.
The research ship anchored above three locations along the route across the South Pacific Gyre and used a metal tube 5.7 kilometers long to reach the ocean floor.
But they also want to put a spotlight on the far-reaching impacts of humankind on the Earth by rowing across parts of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a vast gyre of pulverized plastic garbage occupying an area roughly four times the size of California.
Cyanobacteria in particular, which are especially abundant in the North Atlantic Gyre, play a key role in the global carbon and nitrogen cycle.
Intense media interest in the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a floating, France-sized gyre of oceanic plastic — only heightened the concern.
The second, in the Seattle Japanese Garden, features music by Gyre.
It is a part of the TeX Gyre project to make updated, expanded, OpenType versions of URW's open-source fonts.
It is available both in Type 1 format citation and OpenType format. citation *TeX Gyre Pagella is another similar typeface based on the URW Palladio L font.
Mean surface circulation is cyclonic and waters around the perimeter of the Black Sea circulate in a basin-wide shelfbreak gyre known as the Rim Current.
O'Neill, 58 Here, Yeats incorporates his ideas on the gyre a historical cycle of about 2000 years.
Some of the NADW recirculates with the northern gyre.
Understanding the Atlantic gyre and the volta do mar enabled Portuguese mariners who sailed south and southwest towards the Canary Islands and West Africa to beat upwind to the Strait of Gibraltar and home.