Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters.

By N. Maximenko, J. Hafner, P. Niiler. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution

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Ingestion of Microplastics by Zooplankton in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (2015, background): “Microplastics are also present in the open water of the world’s oceans with major accumulation zones occurring where ocean currents converge into subtropical gyres (Maximenko et al. 2012).”
Microplastics and mesoplastics in fish from coastal and fresh waters of China. (2017, background): “Plastics comprise the largest part of marine debris and have been reported as important pollutants in marine as well as freshwater environments (Thompson et al., 2004; Cole et al., 2011; Maximenko et al., 2012; Wagner et al., 2014; Dris et al., 2015).”
The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris (2020, background): “Turbulence-resolving large-eddy simulations indicate that turbulent downward fluxes of buoyant tracers are suppressed in heating conditions, so that buoyant material is surface-trapped, which is consistent with microplastics observations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Kukulka et al 2016).”
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A global inventory of small floating plastic debris (2015, methodology): “The Maximenko model (Maximenko et al 2012) uses a transition matrix approach, based on the probability of particle travel between ½° bins calculated from trajectories of a historical global set of satellitetracked drifting buoys (http://aoml.noaa.gov/phod/ dac/index.php).”
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