Which risk dramatically increases when seasonal variation weakens prevailing winds inside subtropical gyres?

💡 Explanation

Weakened winds reduce the centripetal force that confines floating plastics toward the gyre's center via Ekman transport; because the pressure gradient force weakens also, debris accumulation accelerates there rather than diffusing more broadly.

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