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

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

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Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

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Numerical modelling of floating debris in the world’s oceans

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Spurious trends in global surface drifter currents

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Evaluating Where and Why Drifters Die*

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Advective Time Scales of Agulhas Leakage to the North Atlantic in Surface Drifter Observations and the 3D OFES Model

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Microplastics as contaminants in the marine environment: A review

(2011) Matthew Cole et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Microplastics in the marine environment

(2011) Anthony L. Andrady   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters

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Global observations of nonlinear mesoscale eddies

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The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean

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Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

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Wind Effects on Drogued and Undrogued Drifters in the Eastern Mediterranean

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An estimate of Lagrangian eddy statistics and diffusion in the mixed layer of the Southern Ocean

(2009) J. B. Sallée et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE RESEARCH

Transport and release of chemicals from plastics to the environment and to wildlife

(2009) E. L. Teuten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Environmental implications of plastic debris in marine settings--entanglement, ingestion, smothering, hangers-on, hitch-hiking and alien invasions

(2009) M. R. Gregory   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Accumulation and fragmentation of plastic debris in global environments

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Synthetic polymers in the marine environment: A rapidly increasing, long-term threat

(2008) Charles James Moore   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

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