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Model description paper
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09 Mar 2022
Model description paper |
| 09 Mar 2022
| 09 Mar 2022
Empirical Lagrangian parametrization for wind-driven mixing of buoyant particles at the ocean surface
Victor Onink
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Erik van Sebille
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Charlotte Laufkötter
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Improved Lagrangian flow network and its application to pattern evolution and mass transport in three-dimensional cavitating flow around a hydrofoil R. Jia et al. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0271228
- Influence of waves on the three-dimensional distribution of plastic in the ocean R. Bajon et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114533
- Influence of Particle Size and Fragmentation on Large-Scale Microplastic Transport in the Mediterranean Sea V. Onink et al. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c03363
- Hydrodynamics acts as a key driver of microplastics transport throughout surface and surface-subsurface water interaction zones: A mechanistic review and research priorities X. Huang et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2026.143435
- Global mass of buoyant marine plastics dominated by large long-lived debris M. Kaandorp et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01216-0
- Microplastics segregation by rise velocity at the ocean surface M. DiBenedetto et al. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb505
- Three-Dimensional Dispersion of Neutral “Plastic” Particles in a Global Ocean Model T. Huck et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/frans.2022.868515
- Modelling submerged biofouled microplastics and their vertical trajectories R. Fischer et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2211-2022
- The Fluid Mechanics of Ocean Microplastics M. DiBenedetto https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-fluid-120423-012604
- The role of turbulence in the deposition of intrinsically buoyant MPs M. Molazadeh et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.168540
- Mapping Microplastic Movement: A Phase Diagram to Predict Nonbuoyant Microplastic Modes of Transport at the Particle Scale H. Al-Zawaidah et al. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c08128
- How size-dependent settling can both bias and inform microplastics observations M. Hoffman & M. DiBenedetto https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ae76df
- Bayesian comparison of stochastic models of dispersion M. Brolly et al. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2022.472
- Accumulation, transformation and transport of microplastics in estuarine fronts T. Wang et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00349-x
- Evaluating connectivity of fisheries-derived marine debris from northwest African upwelling regions and entanglement exposure risk in the Canary Islands M. Vargas Ferraz et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2026.119504
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Short summary
Turbulent mixing is a vital process in 3D modeling of particle transport in the ocean. However, since turbulence occurs on very short spatial scales and timescales, large-scale ocean models generally have highly simplified turbulence representations. We have developed parametrizations for the vertical turbulent transport of buoyant particles that can be easily applied in a large-scale particle tracking model. The predicted vertical concentration profiles match microplastic observations well.
Turbulent mixing is a vital process in 3D modeling of particle transport in the ocean. However,...
