[HTML][HTML] Assessment of surface and bottom marine heatwaves along the Spanish coast

M Fernández-Barba, IE Huertas, G Navarro - Ocean Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are discrete yet persistent events of anomalously warm ocean
temperatures which are becoming a hot topic in climate change research due to their …

Prediction of microplastic abundance in surface water of the ocean and influencing factors based on ensemble learning

Y Zhen, L Wang, H Sun, C Liu - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Microplastics are regarded as emergent contaminants posing a serious threat to the marine
ecosystem. It is time-consuming and labor-intensive to determine the number of …

[HTML][HTML] Model-based estimation of seasonal transport of macro-plastics in a marine protected area

M Stagnitti, RE Musumeci - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2024 - Elsevier
Management of plastic litter in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is expensive but crucial to
avoid harms to critical environments. In the present work, an open-source numerical …

Modeling the spatiotemporal distribution, bioaccumulation, and ecological risk assessment of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems: A review

T Zhuo, B Chai, X You - Aquatic Toxicology, 2025 - Elsevier
Microplastic (MP) pollution poses a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems. Numerical
modeling has emerged as an effective tool for predicting the distribution, accumulation, and …

Modeling the pathways of microplastics in the Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea–sensitivity of parametrizations

E Siht, G Väli, T Liblik, A Mishra, N Buhhalko, U Lips - Ocean Dynamics, 2025 - Springer
This study introduces an open software Lagrangian particle tracking model designed for
simulating the transport of microplastics (MPs), which incorporates crucial processes such …

Spatial distribution of microplastics in the Gulf of Cadiz as a function of their density: A Lagrangian modelling approach

I Laiz, N Foletti, A Teles-Machado, S Plecha… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) are distributed throughout the world oceans and represent one of the
greatest environmental concerns of marine pollution. In the Gulf of Cadiz (GoC), MPs are …

[HTML][HTML] Frontal processes as drivers of floating marine debris in coastal areas

PTD Le, BD Hardesty, HJ Auman, AM Fischer - Marine Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The influence of floating marine debris (FMD) on coastal and marine communities and
ecosystems is undeniable, and attention is increasingly focused on ecologically and …

[HTML][HTML] The Dynamics of Buoyant Microplastic in the Ocean Forced by Unsteady Insolation

H Kreczak, R Higgins, AJ Willmott - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Building on the deterministic mathematical models of Kooi et al.(Environ. Sci. Technol. 51,
2017) and Kreczak et al.(Limnol. Oceanogr. 66, 2021), this study investigates the trajectories …