Talk:Ocean gyre

message: This article could use a map showing where the major gyres in the world's oceans are, and how they relate to major ocean currents. There are a number of maps floating around online which could provide the source information for such a map, though they tend to either show currents or gyres, but not both.
* Wind-Driven Surface Currents: Gyres Background - Adapted from the American Meteorological Society, map showing current names
* Encyclopedia of Earth - Map showing current names and temperatures - Available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License v2.5?  Original source is 
* PowerPoint Presentation - Slide 5 shows schematic map of gyres and systems.
-- Beland (talk) 00:56, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map request 

message: I had the impression that "gyre" was another of the neologisms that Lewis Carrol used in "Jabberwocky", i.e. "... the slithy toves did gyre and gimbal in the wabe". Did its use predate that poem? Should, at least, there be a disambiguation page mentioning that use?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hsfrey (talk • contribs) 20:42, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The noun is from Latin gyrus, originally meaning a ring.  To find when the word was first used in a given sense, for example as a verb "to gyre" or as a noun meaning "ocean vortex," you can check the Oxford English Dictionary.  It attempts to give the earliest known citation for each sense. 70.72.144.66 (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of word "gyre" 

message: Hello . Firstly, i apologize for the revert in renaming this page. My point is that a lot of articles is linked to this page as Oceanic gyres, and there may be reasons for that. Perhaps we need to set a poll (oppose or propose process) to see if this move is really worth it.  Kind regards. Rehman(+) 10:22, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not make the name change without examining usage. Google gives 34,900 hits for "Ocean gyre" and 10,200 hits for "Oceanic gyre", a ratio of 3.4:1 in favour of "Ocean gyre". More to the point, Google Scholar gives 981 hits for "Ocean gyre" and 276 hits for "Oceanic gyre", a ratio of 3.6:1 in favour of "Ocean gyre". The usage is clear and does not need a poll. --Epipelagic (talk) 12:10, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand. Please accept my apology, i should've checked that. There seems to be a problem with moving back the talkpage to "Talk: Ocean gyre", will fix it by today. Regards . Rehman(+) 01:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent renaming 

message: No mention of this important gyre ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SombreGreenbul (talk • contribs) 13:00, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beaufort Gyre 

message: In the section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_gyre#Climate_change there is a statement "Because the Coriolis effect is strongest near the poles". Does anybody have a link supporting this? On Earth one finds no Coriolis effect at the equator or at the poles. Or is this incorrect? --Damorbel (talk) 19:58, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coriolis Force 

message: At present this article is about Ocean gyres. Fair enough! But gyres are an entirely general feature of the Earth's hydrology, not just oceans but other bodies of water also. One of the most studied being the Black Sea where there is WIKI section giving an introduction to gyres in the Black Sea. Circulation of water in the Black Sea has received a great deal of attention because the currents know no frontiers and the carry a fair amount of detritus! The section in the Black Sea article is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea#Hydrology but it is rather limited and does not go into the details of Black Sea circulation. In the Black Sea the theory of gyres happens to match the observations rather well e.g. there are gyres at depth that turn in the opposite direction to those on the surface.
There is a clear deficiency here, suggestions on how to remedy it should be presented.--Damorbel (talk) 20:44, 17 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, however, I think because it is hard to find reliable sources that are openly licensed, there is not much that they could do when they were adding information to the article. Now, I believe there is more access to information, and perhaps even the sections that needed citations will soon be back up with sources. Yajzel V (talk) 10:04, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other gyres 

message: Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? 
Although most of the information in the article comes from reliable sources, such as academic journals and databases, there are many places where there are no citations after stating a fact. Unfortunately, this is happening a lot throughout the article, and other Wikipedians have also noted this by putting [citation needed] in such places. I suggest that before putting information on the article, we first make sure that we now we can appropriately back up the information with a reliable source. 
Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you? 
I think that the Pollution Lead section in the article is not necessary since the topic of the article should be more about Ocean gyre formation and not Garbage Patches. Although both topics are relevant to one another, that section takes away from what should be the main focus, which I believe has more to do with the scientific explanations of their formations and their locations. Also, because that section is far longer than any other section in the article, it becomes a distraction. However, I do believe that including an explanation/visualization of gyres in their involvement in creating garbage patches is relevant. Therefore, I suggest that we reduce the size of that section so as to not take away from the main topic and create an imbalance. 
Yajzel V (talk) 09:57, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critique / Evaluation 

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