Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

During its periodic motion, a particle floating at the free surface of a water wave experiences
a net drift velocity in the direction of wave propagation, known as the Stokes drift (Stokes …

Floating microplastic in the oceans is known to accumulate in the subtropical ocean gyres,
but unclear is still what causes that accumulation. We investigate the role of various physical …

Berta, M., A. Griffa, MG Magaldi, TM Özgökmen, AC Poje, AC Haza, and MJ Olascoaga,
2015: Improved surface velocity and trajectory estimates in the Gulf of Mexico from blended …

Six recent Langmuir turbulence parameterization schemes and five traditional schemes are
implemented in a common single‐column modeling framework and consistently compared …

Abstract Large-Eddy Simulations (LES) have shown the effects of ocean surface gravity
waves in enhancing the ocean boundary layer mixing through Langmuir turbulence …

Plastics and spilled oil pose a critical threat to marine life and human health. As a result of
wind forcing and wave motions, theoretical and laboratory studies predict very strong …

The wave‐averaged, or Craik‐Leibovich, equations describe the dynamics of upper ocean
flow interacting with nonbreaking, not steep, surface gravity waves. This paper formulates …

A new approximation to the Stokes drift velocity profile based on the exact solution for the
Phillips spectrum is explored. The profile is compared with the monochromatic profile and …

Assessing the Effects of Langmuir Turbulence on the Entrainment Buoyancy Flux in the Ocean
Surface Boundary Layer in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 47 Issue 12 (2017) …