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  gyre - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Gyres are large and permanent, and occupy the northern and southern halves of the three major oceans.
Gyres move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere.
JABBERWOCKY 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /gyre   (142 words)

  
 Gyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is often used to describe wind or ocean currents, for example the North Pacific Gyre.
Yeats claimed that this image (he called the spirals "gyres") captured contrary motions inherent within the process of history, and he divided each gyre into different regions that represented particular kinds of historical periods (and could also represent the phases of an individual's psychological development).
In bodies of water, organisms use gyres for movement from areas of depleted nutrients to areas of higher nutrients.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gyre   (287 words)

  
 North Pacific Gyre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The North Pacific Gyre is located between the equator and 50ยบ N latitude.
It is formed by the clockwise circular pattern of the prevailing ocean currents: the North Pacific Current to the north, the California Current to the east, the North Equatorial Current to the south, and the Kuroshio Current to the west.
The centre of the North Pacific Gyre is relatively stationary (the area it occupies is often referred to as the horse latitudes) and the circular rotation around it draws waste material in.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_Pacific_Gyre   (408 words)

  
 GYRE Reduced Gravity Robotics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The GYRE team has built an autonomous free-flying robot capable of orienting itself using visual cues and navigating in a microgravity environment.
The GYRE team is interested in speaking to interested groups about their robot and their flight.
The GYRE team is looking for sponsorship from interested parties to help defray accrued costs related to the robot's construction and other related expenses for their second trip to Houston.
depts.washington.edu /gyre   (213 words)

  
 Alaska Gyre: Marine Mammals
The Gulf of Alaska gyre corresponds to Area 16 of the fur seal pelagic survey (Table 19 of Perez and Bigg 1981) where, in the summer, the animals eat predominately squid (78%), salmon (11%), rockfish (8%), and pollock (3%).
It was assumed that 40% of the male population spent up to one month in the gyre in the summer and another month feeding in the area in winter.
Based on this, and on studies of killer whales from other areas, resident killer whales in the Gulf of Alaska gyre are assumed to eat primarily salmon (80%), as well as large (10%) and small pelagics (10%).
www.fisheries.ubc.ca /Projects/PWSound/AlaskaEco/GYRE/GYRREP15.HTM   (2663 words)

  
 8(q) Surface and Subsurface Ocean Currents
Smaller gyres occur in the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans centered at 50° North.
A typical gyre displays four types of joined currents: two east-west aligned currents found respectively at the top and bottom ends of the gyre; and two boundary currents oriented north-south and flowing parallel to the continental margins.
Note that the bottom west flowing current of the polar gyres is the topmost flowing current of the subtropical gyres.
www.physicalgeography.net /fundamentals/8q.html   (986 words)

  
 Trashed: Across the Pacific Ocean, Plastics, Plastics, Everywhere CHARLES MOORE / Natural History v.112, n.9, Nov03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The gyre we planned to survey is one of the largest ocean realms on Earth, and one of five major subtropical gyres on the planet.
The air in the North Pacific subtropical gyre is heated at the equator and rises high into the atmosphere because of its buoyancy in cooler, surrounding air masses.
The subtropical gyres are also oceanic deserts in fact, many of the world's land-based deserts lie at nearly the same latitudes as the oceanic gyres.
www.mindfully.org /Plastic/Ocean/Moore-Trashed-PacificNov03.htm   (3258 words)

  
 JB Cyclonic Gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A large-scale cyclonic recirculation gyre over the JB is simulated with a strong seasonal variation.
The JB gyre is the strongest and recirculates 8 Sv in the winter.
In the fall, the cyclonic JB gyre disappears and weak anticyclonic eddies appears.
www.oc.nps.navy.mil /~chu/web_paper/ecm/Ecm99a/node13.html   (72 words)

  
 GYRE Reduced Gravity Robotics: Outreach Opportunities
The GYRE team would like to visit interested schools, museums, or other educational groups in the Seattle area to talk with them about the robot, how it works, and about their upcoming flight.
If you know of or represent a school, group, or museum that might be interested in a visit from the GYRE team, please contact contact David Bliss at dbliss@u.washington.edu to arrange a visit.
The GYRE Team was a special guest of the Pacific Science Center during their Space Event on May 4 and 5, 2002.
depts.washington.edu /gyre/outreach.html   (149 words)

  
 W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Historical Cycles
By the twentieth century the gyre of civilisation is reaching its widest expansion, while that of religious life is dwindling, and this is one of the ideas behind the image that opens ‘The Second Coming’: ‘Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer’.
Although both the religious and secular gyres are diamond-shaped in the continuum of history, the annunciations are the major fault-lines, so that these form the natural boundaries of a cycle.
Although the civilisation, in which the annunciation occurs, continues its gyre, there is as great a change in terms of the Faculties as there is in the religious gyre, as the Faculties which were on the religious cone move to the secular cone of civilisation.
www.yeatsvision.com /History.html   (6231 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/gyre
Gyre 'jI(-&)r : a circular or spiral motion or form; especially : a giant circular oceanic surface current.
Gyre has already played out live in several venues throughout Chicago, each time picking up more accolades for their innovative sound.
Gyre has concentrated on pursuing the DIY attitude towards their career as a band, forcing them to analyze what truly matters in pushing themselves as musicians and what it takes to be a band in Chicago.
www.myspace.com /gyre   (1257 words)

  
 Widening Gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Widening Gyre is an acoustic-based band specializing in tight vocal harmonies and virtuoso fiddle tunes ranging from fiery jigs to haunting airs.
Based in Austin Texas, Widening Gyre has performed from Newport News VA to San Diego CA and from the woods of British Columbia to the beaches of Veracruz.
Raised on French Canadian singing and fiddling, Aditi has performed in philharmonic orchestras, was a featured player for the CBC radio broadcast of l'histoire du soldat, and has played at pubs and coffee houses from Toronto to Vancouver Island since the age of fifteen.
www.austincelts.org /gyre   (211 words)

  
 gyre and gimble web development: website design, dependable hosting, custom web-based tools and internet advertising
Gyre and Gimble Website Development is an Internet development company based outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gyre and Gimble offers a complete Internet solution, providing our clients with everything they need to make the most of the online experience.
Gyre and Gimble provided her with a website that showcases her artwork on both skin and paper.
www.gyreandgimble.net   (361 words)

  
 Gyre Technology - Web Design and Web Services in Surrey
At Gyre we take pride in our ability to keep our clients ahead of their competition through the application of innovative Internet technologies.
Using the most secure and reliable techniques available, and by working closely alongside you, we are confident that we can provide you with solutions that you will be well satisfied with.
Gyre Technology is essentially a web design agency.
www.gyre.co.uk   (407 words)

  
 Slope Water & the Jordan Basin Gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This observational study is aimed at investigating the Jordan Basin Gyre, the Eastern Maine Coastal Current, and their relation to inflow into Jordan Basin of relatively warm, salty, and nutrient-rich slope water.
The focus of this project is the study of the Jordan Basin Gyre, the Eastern Maine Coastal Current, the inflow of slope water over Truxton Swell, and the linkages between them.
Deployments in Jordan Basin Gyre and the Eastern Maine Coastal Current during spring and summer cruises in 1994.
woodshole.er.usgs.gov /project-pages/oracle/gomaine/relation.htm   (494 words)

  
 Mid-Depth Ventilation Along the Western Boundary of the Sub-Polar Gyre
Three general water classes are produced by winter cooling: one within the western Labrador Sea gyre, the second in the interior south of the gyre, and the third along the density front of the Labrador Current on the upper continental Slope (Figur e 1).
The western Gyre water mass (region, 1, Figure 2) has the characteristics of classical LSW, i.e., mixed layers on the order of 1500-2000 m in the proper density range.
The water formed south of the gyre in the interior (region 2, Figure 2) is somewhat lighter than this, though the mixed layers are substantially shallower (order 500 m).
www.aoml.noaa.gov /phod/accp/ap95/mid-d.html   (1219 words)

  
 NASA - Top Story - SATELLITES RECORD WEAKENING NORTH ATLANTIC CURRENT - April 15, 2004
Along the subpolar gyre pathway the red to yellow transition indicates the cooling to Labrador Sea Water, which flows back to the subtropical gyre in the west as an intermediate depth current (yellow).
The current, known as the sub polar 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).
While previous studies have proposed winds resulting from the NAO have influenced the subpolar gyre's currents, this study found heat exchanges from the ocean to the atmosphere may be playing a bigger role in the weakening current.
www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0415gyre.html   (1131 words)

  
 Charleston Gyre Dailylog Jan. 28th
The January/February 2003 cruise to the Charleston Gyre is the fourth
The reason for this mission is to assess production of the Charleston Gyre, its contribution to production of the entire southeastern Atlantic Bight, and its potential as pelagic spawning and nursery habitat for fishes.
By measuring the temperature and salinity, we are able to determine when we are within the Charleston Gyre.
oceanica.cofc.edu /chasgyre/home.htm   (406 words)

  
 Gulf of Mexico Hydrographic Data on CD-ROM
The 45 cruises of Gyre and Powell were sponsored by NSF, DOE, and Navy grants and contracts, as well as by the State of Texas for graduate student training and research, and by oil and gas industry contracts for piston coring and other MG&G exploration; the cruise on Antares was sponsored by the Mexican Navy.
For example, subdirectory 89G15 is cruise 15 of R/V Gyre for the year 1989; 91P03 is cruise 3 of R/V J.W. Powell for 1991; 95ANT is a 1995 cruise on Antares.
For R/V Gyre cruise 89G-03, Dr. Denis Wiesenburg outfitted the Neil Brown Mark-III CTD with a conductivity sensor of non-standard (wide) range, to allow T,S data to be collected within the high salinity brine of the Orca Basin.
www.nodc.noaa.gov /General/CDR-detdesc/gulfmex.html   (2236 words)

  
 Dead Zone Diary: Hierarchy on board the Gyre
Dallas Francis, 64, is one of the two ABs on the Gyre responsible for keeping the logs, and cleaning the vessel.
He's been an AB on the Gyre for 11 years, and when he's not at sea, he lives in an apartment near the Houston Astrodome.
Numerous people on the Gyre said the job strained marriages, relationships with children and other loved ones.
blogs.chron.com /deadzone/archives/2005/05/hierarchy_on_bo.html   (630 words)

  
 Gyre Technology - News and Articles from Gyre
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Gyre is giving away licences for its lens calculator, enabling web sites to use it for free.
After winning several prestigious restaurant awards, the owners of this restaurant in Hackney approached Gyre and asked us to apply a makeover to their existing web site.
www.gyre.co.uk /news   (621 words)

  
 gyre on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The flywheel of the Arctic climate engine: remote Beaufort Gyre expeditions reveal clues to climate change.
"Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre": A Second Coming into Language in Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents".
Decentering The Contact Center: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-gyre.asp   (208 words)

  
 Reversica Products
This April, TV Technology magazine awarded the Gyre 6300 an exclusive Mario Award, only one of ten given out each year.
Mechanical simplicity At its heart the Gyre has three moving parts meaning there are fewer things to break and years of troublefree service.
Flexible screen positioning Unlike a lift system, the Gyre allows your screen to be placed at whatever height you’d like for an optimum viewing experience.
www.reversica.com /products   (389 words)

  
 Gyre quotes & quotations
“'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
en.thinkexist.com /quotes/with/keyword/gyre   (167 words)

  
 gizmag Article: Reversica’s new plasma/LCD concealment hardware
With a motion described as ‘rotaxial’ by Reversica’s CEO and the product’s inventor, Bill Stone, the motion hardware allows a 50” plasma or LCD screen television to twist completely around revealing a bookcase with 12 linear feet of space.
One minute you’re watching TV and — spin the Gyre around — the next minute your home theater is now a library and you’re ready for book club night.
The Gyre doesn’t pivot like a Lazy Susan but swings out, tracing a teardrop pattern and returning to its original location, only reversed.
www.gizmag.com /go/3943   (555 words)

  
 Gyre Music - New & Ancient Music - Fine Recordings & Music Editions
Gyre Music - New & Ancient Music - Fine Recordings & Music Editions
Gyre Music is a small company founded in the year 2000 by Frank Wallace and Nancy Knowles.
Owned and operated by artists, the quality and integrity of its products is guaranteed.
www.gyremusic.com /catalog/about_us.php   (274 words)

  
 Discworld MUD - gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Self: You gyre and gimble around Womble and Cabbage in the wabe.
Target: Beanfitch gyres and gimbles around you in the wabe.
Others: Beanfitch gyres and gimbles around Womble and Cabbage in the wabe.
discworld.imaginary.com /lpc/playing/soul.c?soul=gyre   (153 words)

  
 Barrier layer in the North Pacific subtropical gyre
Barrier layer in the North Pacific subtropical gyre
By analyzing all the available temperature/salinity profiles obtained by Argo floats as of August 2003, we evaluate the barrier layers (BLs) in the North Pacific subtropical gyre.
Citation: Sato, K. Suga, and K. Hanawa (2004), Barrier layer in the North Pacific subtropical gyre, Geophys.
www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2003GL018590.shtml   (272 words)

  
 "The Widening Gyre" - Episode 201 - Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
-Regimental Hymn of the 11th Imperial Lancers, CY 201 - "The Widening Gyre"
With the ship severely damaged, Dylan (Kevin Sorbo) leads the crew of the Andromeda Ascendant in a battle against the largest and deadliest enemy they have ever encountered.
The news makes Dylan and the crew more determined than ever to renew the Commonwealth, as The Abyss reforms itself.
www.andromedatv.com /episodes/season2/epi_201.html   (810 words)

  
 Earthwise Gyre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Earthwise Gyre is an association of Pagan and Pagan-friendly men and women devoted to the celebration of earth spirituality and the safe, competent, and responsible enjoyment of the great outdoors.
Through guided discovery and expedition, Earthwise Gyre creates opportunities for learning, exploration, and reconnection both with ourselves and our natural world.
Charities We Support: A list of charities supported by the Earthwise Gyre members.
www.earthwisegyre.dreamhost.com   (123 words)

  
 Andromeda: The Widening Gyre (2) - TV.com
The Nova Bomb that Beka is ordered to launch was the one Dylan salvaged in Too Loose the Fateful Lightning.
We don't have trivia for The Widening Gyre (2).
Tell the world what you think of The Widening Gyre (2).
www.tv.com /andromeda/the-widening-gyre-2/episode/39198/summary.html   (267 words)

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