Lagrangian ocean analysis: Fundamentals and practices

E Van Sebille, SM Griffies, R Abernathey, TP Adams… - Ocean modelling, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Lagrangian analysis is a powerful way to analyse the output of ocean circulation models and
other ocean velocity data such as from altimetry. In the Lagrangian approach, large sets of …

Advances in the application of surface drifters

R Lumpkin, T Özgökmen… - Annual review of marine …, 2017‏ - annualreviews.org
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 …

Plastic debris occurrence, convergence areas and fin whales feeding ground in the Mediterranean marine protected area Pelagos sanctuary: a modeling approach

MC Fossi, T Romeo, M Baini, C Panti… - Frontiers in marine …, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
The Mediterranean Sea is greatly affected by marine litter. In this area, research on the
impact of plastic debris (including microplastics) on biota, particularly large filter-feeding …

A biodegradable surface drifter for ocean sampling on a massive scale

G Novelli, CM Guigand, C Cousin… - … of Atmospheric and …, 2017‏ - journals.ametsoc.org
Targeted observations of submesoscale currents are necessary to improve science's
understanding of oceanic mixing, but these dynamics occur at spatiotemporal scales that are …

Seasonality of the submesoscale dynamics in the Gulf Stream region

JA Mensa, Z Garraffo, A Griffa, TM Özgökmen, A Haza… - Ocean Dynamics, 2013‏ - Springer
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 …

Submesoscale impacts on horizontal and vertical transport in the Gulf of Mexico

Y Zhong, A Bracco - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Ecological implications of eddy retention in the open ocean: a Lagrangian approach

F d'Ovidio, S De Monte, A Della Penna… - Journal of Physics A …, 2013‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The repartition of tracers in the ocean's upper layer on the scale of a few tens of kilometres is
largely determined by the horizontal transport induced by surface currents. Here we …

Modeling plastics exposure for the marine biota: risk maps for fin whales in the Pelagos Sanctuary (North-Western Mediterranean)

F Guerrini, L Mari, R Casagrandi - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Several anthropogenic stressors threaten the Mediterranean basin, which is currently
regarded as one of the most impacted marine ecoregions globally. Among those stressors …

Effect of small scale transport processes on phytoplankton distribution in coastal seas

I Hernández-Carrasco, A Orfila, V Rossi, V Garçon - Scientific reports, 2018‏ - nature.com
Coastal ocean ecosystems are major contributors to the global biogeochemical cycles and
biological productivity. Physical factors induced by the turbulent flow play a crucial role in …

Holocene climate variability in the north-western Mediterranean Sea (gulf of lions)

B Jalali, MA Sicre, MA Bassetti, N Kallel - Climate of the Past, 2016‏ - cp.copernicus.org
Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) and land-derived input time series were generated from
the Gulf of Lions inner-shelf sediments (NW Mediterranean Sea) using alkenones and high …