Currents do not flow directly in the direction of the density gradient. They flow in circular loops or gyres. Gyres are spiral oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and ...

The Beaufort Gyre is a massive wind-driven circular ocean current in the Arctic Ocean, located north of the Alaskan and ...

The North Pacific Gyre is a swirling vortex of water made up of four prevailing surface currents that move in a clockwise direction: the North Pacific Current, the California Current, the North ...

Scientists map ocean currents to trap floating trash and plastic debris, improving cleanup efforts of the Great Pacific ...

A major ocean current in the Arctic, the Beaufort Gyre, is changing rapidly due to climate warming—and this could trigger a ...

One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to a new study. As a result, the North Atlantic could be flooded with ...

the research team was able to demonstrate how particles found on the surface of the gyre might have reached this region. Taking into account the hugely varied currents in the North Atlantic ...