GEOSC 040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Boundary Current, High-Pressure Area, Wind Direction
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Garbage patch is huge, bigger than the size of texas. Currents push garbage into the same spot. In the southern hemisphere winds that blow from north to south are deflected to the east. Air blows in toward low-pressure system: bend left of the way they are originally going. Global patterns of wind along with coriolis forcing, explain the basic pattern of large- scale ocean surface currents. The ocean currents form large gyres as a product of. Residence time- to find out how big the deep ocean is. 80% of the volume of the ocean.
