The physical oceanography of the transport of floating marine debris

E Van Sebille, S Aliani, KL Law… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Marine plastic debris floating on the ocean surface is a major environmental problem.
However, its distribution in the ocean is poorly mapped, and most of the plastic waste …

Earth observations for monitoring marine coastal hazards and their drivers

A Melet, P Teatini, G Le Cozannet, C Jamet… - Surveys in …, 2020 - Springer
Coastal zones have large social, economic and environmental values. They are more
densely populated than the hinterland and concentrate large economic assets, critical …

OpenDrift v1. 0: a generic framework for trajectory modelling

KF Dagestad, J Röhrs, Ø Breivik… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
OpenDrift is an open-source Python-based framework for Lagrangian particle modelling
under development at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute with contributions from the …

Stokes drift

TS van den Bremer, Ø Breivik - … transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
During its periodic motion, a particle floating at the free surface of a water wave experiences
a net drift velocity in the direction of wave propagation, known as the Stokes drift (Stokes …

Progress in operational modeling in support of oil spill response

CH Barker, VH Kourafalou, CJ Beegle-Krause… - Journal of marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico,
scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to advance oil spill …

Multi-uav coverage path planning based on hexagonal grid decomposition in maritime search and rescue

SW Cho, JH Park, HJ Park, S Kim - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
In the event of a maritime accident, surveying the maximum area efficiently in the least
amount of time is crucial for rescuing survivors. Increasingly, unmanned aerial vehicles …

An autonomous coverage path planning algorithm for maritime search and rescue of persons-in-water based on deep reinforcement learning

J Wu, L Cheng, S Chu, Y Song - Ocean engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
The prevalence of maritime transportation and operations is increasing, leading to a gradual
increase in drowning accidents at sea. In the context of maritime search and rescue (SAR), it …

Surface wave effects in the NEMO ocean model: Forced and coupled experiments

Ø Breivik, K Mogensen, JR Bidlot… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The NEMO general circulation ocean model is extended to incorporate three physical
processes related to ocean surface waves, namely the surface stress (modified by growth …

Surface currents in operational oceanography: Key applications, mechanisms, and methods

J Röhrs, G Sutherland, G Jeans… - Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reviews physical mechanisms, observation techniques and modelling
approaches dealing with surface currents on short time scales (hours to days) relevant for …

Satellite remote sensing of surface winds, waves, and currents: where are we now?

D Hauser, S Abdalla, F Ardhuin, JR Bidlot… - Surveys in …, 2023 - Springer
This review paper reports on the state-of-the-art concerning observations of surface winds,
waves, and currents from space and their use for scientific research and subsequent …