[HTML][HTML] High concentrations of floating neustonic life in the plastic-rich North Pacific Garbage Patch

F Chong, M Spencer, N Maximenko, J Hafner… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Floating life (obligate neuston) is a core component of the ocean surface food web.
However, only 1 region of high neustonic abundance is known so far, the Sargasso Sea in …

Overview of the advances in understanding chaos in low-dimensional dynamical systems subjected to parameter drift: Parallel dynamical evolutions and” climate …

D Jánosi, T Tél - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper offers a review while also studying yet unexplored features of the area of chaotic
systems subjected to parameter drift of non-negligible rate, an area where the methods of …

Macrolitter and microplastics along the East Pacific coasts—A homemade problem needing local solutions

D Honorato-Zimmer, G Escobar-Sánchez… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The East Pacific (EP) region, especially the central and southern EP, has been fairly
less studied than other world's regions with respect to marine litter pollution. This …

Probabilistic forecasts of extreme heatwaves using convolutional neural networks in a regime of lack of data

G Miloshevich, B Cozian, P Abry, P Borgnat… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Understanding extreme events and their probability is key for the study of climate change
impacts, risk assessment, adaptation, and the protection of living beings. Extreme …

Large floating abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is frequent marine pollution in the Hawaiian Islands and Palmyra Atoll

SJ Royer, RN Corniuk, A McWhirter, HW Lynch IV… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abandoned, lost, or discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) is a major source of marine debris with
significant ecological and economic consequences. We documented the frequency, types …

[HTML][HTML] Do loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) gut contents reflect the types, colors and sources of plastic pollution in the Southwest Indian Ocean?

M Thibault, L Hoarau, L Lebreton, M Le Corre… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyzed plastic debris ingested by loggerheads from bycatch between 2007 and 2021
in the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO). We also analyzed plastic debris accumulated on …

[HTML][HTML] Garbage patches and their environmental implications in a plastisphere

W Leal Filho, J Hunt, M Kovaleva - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
This Communication reports on the increases in the sizes of garbage patches, and their
environmental implications, outlining the dimensions of what is a growing problem …

[HTML][HTML] Learning forecasts of rare stratospheric transitions from short simulations

J Finkel, RJ Webber, EP Gerber… - Monthly Weather …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Rare events arising in nonlinear atmospheric dynamics remain hard to predict and attribute.
We address the problem of forecasting rare events in a prototypical example, sudden …

Coupling rare event algorithms with data-based learned committor functions using the analogue Markov chain

D Lucente, J Rolland, C Herbert… - Journal of Statistical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Rare events play a crucial role in many physics, chemistry, and biology phenomena, when
they change the structure of the system, for instance in the case of multistability, or when …

Revealing the statistics of extreme events hidden in short weather forecast data

J Finkel, EP Gerber, DS Abbot, J Weare - AGU Advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extreme weather events have significant consequences, dominating the impact of climate on
society. While high‐resolution weather models can forecast many types of extreme events …