A global inventory of small floating plastic debris

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Van Sebille, Erik ^a,b   Wilcox, Chris ^c   Lebreton, Laurent ^d   Maximenko, Nikolai ^e   Hardesty, Britta Denise ^c   Van Franeker, Jan A ^f   Eriksen, Marcus ^g   Siegel, David ^h   Galgani, Francois ⁱ   Law, Kara Lavender ^j  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d Dumpark Data Science   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g 5 Gyres Institute   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ IFREMER   (France)

^j Sea Education Association   (United States)

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Author keywords

marine debris; model comparison; ocean circulation

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; FISHERIES; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

GLOBAL INVENTORIES; MARINE DEBRIS; MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES; MODEL COMPARISON; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; PLASTIC MARINE DEBRIS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; MODELING; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PLASTIC WASTE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84952884592     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/124006     Document Type: Article

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