Between Hawaii and California, trash swirls in giant ocean currents, caught up in the infamous, Texas-sized Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This is just one of many found across the globe. Efforts to ...

A critical ocean current is unlikely ... rather than a total shutdown of all circulation. “The new study investigates the remaining wind-driven overturning [current] in more detail, which ...

Melting Antarctic ice sheets are slowing Earth’s strongest ocean current: ‘There could be severe consequences’ - Freshwater ...

Work since that time has backed up the theory, which has come to be known as Ekman's theory of wind-driven ocean ... a better understanding of ocean surface flow and circulation patterns.

Circulation in the Arctic Ocean, Polar Res ... Woodgate, Impact of wind-driven mixing in the Arctic Ocean, Oceanography 24, (2011). 136-145, doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2011.65. Rigor, I.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ... a key mechanism, wind-driven upwelling in the Southern Ocean, can prevent its total collapse this century. The study, led by researchers ...

Ocean currents are continuous movements of water in the Earth’s oceans. They are driven by both wind and thermohaline circulation interacting with each other. Wind moves the surface waters by ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 59, No. 4 (2014), pp. 1213-1227 (15 pages) The transport of pelagic plankton by wind-driven ocean currents and surface gravity waves is investigated for the example of ...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)—a major transporter ... this is not strong enough to balance all of the Southern Ocean wind-driven upwelling. Therefore, some level of ...