Surface drifting buoys, or drifters, are used in oceanographic and climate research, oil spill
tracking, weather forecasting, search and rescue operations, calibration and validation of …

The well-lit upper layer of the open ocean is a dynamical environment that hosts
approximately half of global primary production. In the remote parts of this environment …

Reliable forecasts for the dispersion of oceanic contamination are important for coastal
ecosystems, society, and the economy as evidenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in …

Berta, M., A. Griffa, MG Magaldi, TM Özgökmen, AC Poje, AC Haza, and MJ Olascoaga,
2015: Improved surface velocity and trajectory estimates in the Gulf of Mexico from blended …

Frontogenesis and frontal instabilities in the mixed layer are known to be important
processes in the formation of submesoscale features. We study the seasonality of such …

A new cold-water coral (CWC) province has been identified in the Mediterranean Sea in the
Capo Spartivento canyon system offshore the southern coast of Sardinia. The 'Sardinia cold …

It is well established that most of the plastic pollution found in the oceans is transported via
rivers. Unfortunately, the main processes contributing to plastic and debris displacement …

Impacts of submesoscale processes on transport are investigated numerically in an
energetic mesoscale flow with an ocean model run at two horizontal resolutions, 1 and 5 km …

The multi-scale and nonlinear nature of the ocean dynamics dramatically affects the
spreading of matter, like pollutants, marine litter, etc., of physical and chemical seawater …

Using two-point velocity and position data from the near-simultaneous release of O (100)
GPS-tracked surface drifters in the northern Gulf of Mexico, we examine the applicability of …