A great, circular motion of water in each of the major ocean basins centered on subtropical high-pressure region, with circulation clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
A mass of water circulating as a unit and separated from other circulating water masses by a boundary of relatively stationary water.
Something moving in a circle. 'Ocean gyres' refers to currents systems, of several currents flowing around a calmer area in the middle.
a circular motion of water with a diameter of 1000s of kilometers (larger than an eddy)
a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles
a vortex, spiral, a series of concentric circles
a major circular moving body of water; it is created as boundary currents get deflected by winds and the Coriolis Effect. There are five gyres in our world ocean. Two each in the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans and one in the Indian Ocean. They flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere
Large wind-driven swirls of oceanic water masses affecting large zones in the Pacific.
To go round and round like a gyroscope. (Gyre is an actual word, circa 1566, meaning a circular or spiral motion or form; especially a giant circular oceanic surface current.)
A circular or spiral motion, primarily referring to water currents.
A gyre is any manner of swirling vortex. It is often used to describe wind or ocean currents, for example the North Pacific Gyre. In bodies of water, organisms use gyres for movement from areas of depleted nutrients to areas of higher nutrients.Lecture by Kristine Brenneman, in the Fisheries Biology department at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California Gyres are caused by Coriolis effect.
