Pathways of marine debris derived from trajectories of Lagrangian drifters

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 65, Issue 1-3, 2012, Pages 51-62

  Maximenko, Nikolai ^a   Hafner, Jan ^a   Niiler, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation of marine debris; Convergence of Ekman currents; Lagrangian drifters; Surface currents

Indexed keywords

COMPETING EFFECTS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; GLOBAL SET; LAGRANGIAN DRIFTERS; LONG-TERM EVOLUTION; MARINE DEBRIS; MODEL EXPERIMENTS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SEA SURFACES; SURFACE CURRENTS;

DEBRIS; DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS;

ACCUMULATION RATE; DETECTION METHOD; DRIFTER; EKMAN TRANSPORT; MARINE POLLUTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBTROPICAL CONVERGENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OCEAN CURRENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PACIFIC OCEAN; REMOTE SENSING; SEA POLLUTION; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SOLID WASTE; VELOCITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPACECRAFT; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84856058433     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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