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 …

Lagrangian analysis is a powerful way to analyse the output of ocean circulation models and
other ocean velocity data such as from altimetry. In the Lagrangian approach, large sets of …

Reliable forecasts for the dispersion of oceanic contamination are important for coastal
ecosystems, society, and the economy as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in …

Surface drifting buoys, or drifters, are used in oceanographic and climate research, oil spill
tracking, weather forecasting, search and rescue operations, calibration and validation of …

Frontogenesis and frontal instabilities in the mixed layer are known to be important
processes in the formation of submesoscale features. We study the seasonality of such …

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 …

Velocities derived from AVISO sea‐surface height observations, adjusted to be
nondivergent, are used to simulate the evolution of passive tracers at the ocean surface …

The air–sea interface is a key gateway in the Earth system. It is where the atmosphere sets
the ocean in motion, climate/weather-relevant air–sea processes occur, and pollutants (ie …

This study examines spreading of surface drifter pairs deployed as part of the CLIVAR Mode
Water Dynamic Experiment (CLIMODE) project in the Gulf Stream region. The spreading is …

This paper reviews physical mechanisms, observation techniques and modelling
approaches dealing with surface currents on short time scales (hours to days) relevant for …