Tracking Marine Litter With a Global Ocean Model: Where Does It Go? Where Does It Come From?

Fate of floating plastic debris released along the coasts in a global ocean model

(2021) Fanny Chenillat et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

(2020) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Air Pollution and Sea Pollution Seen from Space

(2020) Camille Viatte et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Low Temperature Decomposition of Polystyrene

(2020) Hideki Kimukai et al.   Applied Sciences-Basel

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

(2020) Stephanie B. Borrelle et al.   SCIENCE

Land or sea? What bottles tell us about the origins of beach litter in Kenya

(2020) Peter G. Ryan   WASTE MANAGEMENT

Microplastic Pollution in Deep-Sea Sediments From the Great Australian Bight

(2020) Justine Barrett et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Human Health and Ocean Pollution

(2020) Philip J. Landrigan et al.   Annals of Global Health

Seasonal and spatial variation of surface current in the Pemba Channel, Tanzania

(2019) Masumbuko Semba et al.   PLoS One

Large impact of Stokes drift on the fate of surface floating debris in the South Indian Basin

(2019) Delphine Dobler et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

A Surface “Superconvergence” Pathway Connecting the South Indian Ocean to the Subtropical South Pacific Gyre

(2018) C. Maes et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Calibration of a marine floating litter transport model

(2018) Diego Pereiro et al.   Journal of Operational Oceanography

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

(2018) L. Lebreton et al.   Scientific Reports

Export of Plastic Debris by Rivers into the Sea

(2017) Christian Schmidt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Marine litter: Sea change for plastic pollution

(2017) Melanie Bergmann et al.   NATURE

Stokes drift

(2017) T. S. van den Bremer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans

(2017) Laurent C. M. Lebreton et al.   Nature Communications

Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made

(2017) Roland Geyer et al.   Science Advances

Estimating quantities and sources of marine debris at a continental scale

(2016) Britta Denise Hardesty et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Origin and fate of surface drift in the oceanic convergence zones of the eastern Pacific

(2016) Christophe Maes et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

On some physical and dynamical properties of microplastic particles in marine environment

(2016) I. Chubarenko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean

(2015) J. R. Jambeck et al.   SCIENCE

Plastic Accumulation in the Mediterranean Sea

(2015) Andrés Cózar et al.   PLoS One

US Navy Operational Global Ocean and Arctic Ice Prediction Systems

(2014) E. Joseph Metzger et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Plastic debris in the open ocean

(2014) A. Cozar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Origin, dynamics and evolution of ocean garbage patches from observed surface drifters

(2012) Erik van Sebille et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The effect of wind mixing on the vertical distribution of buoyant plastic debris

(2012) T. Kukulka et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Wind-induced drift of objects at sea: The leeway field method

(2011) Øyvind Breivik et al.   APPLIED OCEAN RESEARCH

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

(2011) Eric Chassignet et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Simulated and observed circulation in the Indonesian Seas: 1/12° global HYCOM and the INSTANT observations

(2010) E.J. Metzger et al.   DYNAMICS OF ATMOSPHERES AND OCEANS

Observation of swell dissipation across oceans

(2009) Fabrice Ardhuin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS