An ocean of gyres. The surface flow in the North Atlantic consists of three large gyres. Far south, in the subtropical gyre, the water follows the Gulf Stream northward in a narrow, concentrated band.

To travel back south, surface waters in the North Atlantic must plunge down the water column and merge with bottom currents. Climate scientists say this sinking step is where the circulation is ...

The ocean’s thermohaline circulation, a system of various ocean currents and water-mass conveyors, is crucial for distributing heat, salinity, minerals, dissolved gases, and nutrients around the ...

The current, known as the subpolar gyre, has weakened in the past in connection with certain phases of a large-scale atmospheric pressure system known as the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO).

The study confirms that the North Atlantic cold patch is due to a weakening ocean current system, not aerosols or wind ...

For example, in the North Atlantic Gyre, water flows west along the equator, north past the U.S. East Coast in the Gulf Stream, back east along the Arctic, then south past Europe and Africa as the ...

The waters of the North Atlantic gyre contain significantly greater quantities of plastic – composed of polymers arising from packaging, rope, and paint particles – than other areas of the ...

Synthetic microplastic abundance and composition along a longitudinal gradient traversing the subtropical gyre in the North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Pollution Bulletin , 2022; 185: 114371 DOI: 10. ...

That may be because the storm passed over the so–called "garbage patch" of the North Atlantic Gyre, said New Scientist, a "gyre" being a region where currents move in an inward, ...