Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris

MLA Kaandorp, D Lobelle, C Kehl, HA Dijkstra… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The fate of plastics that enter the ocean is a longstanding puzzle. Recent estimates of the
oceanic input of plastic are one to two orders of magnitude larger than the amount measured …

Ejection of marine microplastics by raindrops: a computational and experimental study

M Lehmann, LM Oehlschlägel, FP Häusl… - Microplastics and …, 2021 - Springer
Raindrops impacting water surfaces such as lakes or oceans produce myriads of tiny
droplets which are ejected into the atmosphere at very high speeds. Here we combine …

Computing marine plankton connectivity under thermal constraints

D Manral, D Iovino, O Jaillon, S Masina… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Ocean currents are a key driver of plankton dispersal across the oceanic basins. However,
species specific temperature constraints may limit the plankton dispersal. We propose a …

Impact of climate change on surface stirring and transport in the Mediterranean Sea

E Ser‐Giacomi, G Jordá‐Sánchez… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how climate change will affect oceanic fluid transport is crucial for
environmental applications and human activities. However, a synoptic characterization of …

Микропластик в морской среде

ИП Чубаренко, ЕЕ Есюкова, ЛИ Хатмуллина… - 2021 - elibrary.ru
Мелкие частицы пластика (микропластик (МП),< 5 мм) обнаружены в Мировом океане
повсеместно, от поверхности до дна, от льдов Арктики до вод Антарктики. Их свойства …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting flow features in scarce trajectory data using networks derived from symbolic itineraries: an application to surface drifters in the North Atlantic

D Wichmann, C Kehl, HA Dijkstra… - Nonlinear Processes …, 2020 - npg.copernicus.org
The basin-wide surface transport of tracers such as heat, nutrients and plastic in the North
Atlantic Ocean is organized into large-scale flow structures such as the Western Boundary …

Investigating microscale patchiness of motile microbes under turbulence in a simulated convective mixed layer

AK Christensen, MD Piggott, E van Sebille… - PLoS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Microbes play a primary role in aquatic ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Spatial
patchiness is a critical factor underlying these activities, influencing biological productivity …

Quantifying mantle mixing through configurational entropy

E van der Wiel, C Thieulot, DJJ van Hinsbergen - Solid Earth, 2024 - se.copernicus.org
Geodynamic models of mantle convection provide a powerful tool to obtain insights into the
structure and composition of the Earth's mantle that resulted from a long history of …

Towards a modelling and optimisation of the recovery of marine floating plastic

N Maslov, L Salmon, C Claramunt - Web and Wireless Geographical …, 2020 - Springer
The recovery of marine plastic litter has been recently recognised as one of the world
greatest environmental challenge. While many recent initiatives are oriented towards the …

Tracking the origin of microplastics in the South Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

A Olivelli - 2019 - studenttheses.uu.nl
Plastic pollution poses one of the most urgent threats of present time to the marine
environment. Global plastic production is growing exponentially and causing an …