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Ebbesmeyer et al. 2007

Ebbesmeyer, C.C., Ingraham, W.J., Royer, T.C. and Grosch, C.E. (2007). Tub Toys Orbit the Pacific Subarctic Gyre. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 88: doi: 10.1029/2007EO010001. issn: 0096-3941.

In 1992, a cargo container of children's bath toys fell overboard in the middle North Pacific Ocean. Subsequently, 29,000 toys were tracked 4,000 kilometers to southeastern Alaska <Ebbesmeyer and Ingraham, 1994>. The spill's upcoming fifteenth anniversary has prompted an examination of the reports of toys stranded on shorelines around the Subarctic Gyre, a planetary vortex the size of the United States.

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Keywords
Oceanography, Physical, General circulation (1218, 1222), Oceanography, Physical, Currents, Oceanography, Physical, Instruments and techniques

Journal
Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union

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