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The patches are connected by a thin 6,000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone.
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The patches are connected by a thin 6,000-mile long current called the Subtropical Convergence Zone.
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It's called Becalm and is about a sailing voyage I made around the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, a weather/ocean current system which dominates the North Pacific Ocean.
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Subtropical rainforest below the boundary, subtropical rainforest above the boundary.
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Subtropical rainforest below the boundary, subtropical rainforest above the boundary.
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Climate: Subtropical to temperate; substantial rainfall in the eastern portions, becoming semiarid in the far west.
Paraguay 2009
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We are well and truly in the Subtropical Convergence Zone, as described by the NOAA Marine Debris Program, a band several hundred kilometers in width centered around 30 degrees north latitude, and stretching from far offshore California to far offshore Japan.
Laurie David: Captain Moore Explores the Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch 2009
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The observations we have made of the plastic soup in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre are fixed in our memories and the hard work of sample analysis will soon begin in our lab.
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Climate: Subtropical; mild, humid; gales, strong winds common in winter
Bermuda 2009
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Climate: Subtropical, tempered by easterly trade winds, relatively low humidity, little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season September to November.
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