Numerical modelling of floating debris in the world's oceans

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 653-661

  Lebreton, L C M ^a,b   Greer, S D ^a,b   Borrero, J C ^a,b,c  

^a ASR Limited Martine Consulting and Research   (New Zealand)

^b SEA THOS Foundation   (United States)

^c Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Garbage patch; Global circulation; Lagrangian; Marine debris; Particle tracking; Plastic pollution

Indexed keywords

GARBAGE PATCH; GLOBAL CIRCULATION; LAGRANGIAN; MARINE DEBRIS; PARTICLE TRACKING;

MARINE POLLUTION;

DEBRIS;

PLASTIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MARINE POLLUTION; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEAN BASIN; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PARTICLE MOTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRACKING; WASTE DISPOSAL;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLLUTION MONITORING; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SEA POLLUTION; SIMULATION; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84857355903     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.10.027     Document Type: Article

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