Jan 21
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365 Days of Climate Awareness 118 — Ocean Gyres
A gyre is a rotating surface current.
A gyre is a rotating surface current. There are five major basin-wide gyres on the planet: north and south Atlantic; north and south Pacific; and Indian. They are all wind-driven. Though some like the North Atlantic gyre form part of the global thermohaline circulation, all…
