Articles | Volume 15, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1995-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-1995-2022
Model description paper
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09 Mar 2022
Model description paper |  | 09 Mar 2022

Empirical Lagrangian parametrization for wind-driven mixing of buoyant particles at the ocean surface

Victor Onink, Erik van Sebille, and Charlotte Laufkötter

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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.