Transport processes in the Gulf of Mexico along the river-Estuary-Shelf-Ocean continuum: A review of research from the Gulf of Mexico research initiative

D Justić, V Kourafalou, G Mariotti, S He, R Weisberg… - Estuaries and …, 2022 - Springer
Estuarine and coastal geomorphology, biogeochemistry, water quality, and coastal food
webs in river-dominated shelves of the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) are modulated by transport …

Arrival of new great salinity anomaly weakens convection in the Irminger Sea

TC Biló, F Straneo, J Holte… - Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Subpolar North Atlantic is prone to recurrent extreme freshening events called
Great Salinity Anomalies (GSAs). Here, we combine hydrographic ocean analyses and …

Message in a bottle–the story of floating plastic in the eastern Mediterranean sea

G Pasternak, D Zviely, A Ariel, E Spanier, CA Ribic - Waste Management, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mediterranean Sea is a closed basin with limited water exchange through the
Strait of Gibraltar, and sites along its shores show the greatest densities of marine debris in …

Overflow water pathways in the North Atlantic

MS Lozier, AS Bower, HH Furey, KL Drouin, X Xu… - Progress in …, 2022 - Elsevier
As part of the international Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP),
135 acoustically-tracked deep floats were deployed to track the spreading pathways of …

[HTML][HTML] Transition paths of marine debris and the stability of the garbage patches

P Miron, FJ Beron-Vera, L Helfmann… - … Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We used transition path theory (TPT) to infer “reactive” pathways of floating marine debris
trajectories. The TPT analysis was applied on a pollution-aware time-homogeneous Markov …

Building a Maxey–Riley framework for surface ocean inertial particle dynamics

FJ Beron-Vera, MJ Olascoaga, P Miron - Physics of Fluids, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A framework for the study of surface ocean inertial particle motion is built from the Maxey–
Riley set. A new set is obtained by vertically averaging each term of the original set, adapted …

Predicted distributions and abundances of the sea turtle 'lost years' in the western North Atlantic Ocean

NF Putman, EE Seney, P Verley, DJ Shaver… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oceanic dispersal characterizes the early juvenile life‐stages of numerous marine species
of conservation concern. This early stage may be a 'critical period'for many species, playing …

Seasonality of marine litter hotspots in the wider Caribbean Region

X Xu, EP Chassignet, P Miron… - Journal of Marine Science …, 2024 - mdpi.com
The persistent increase in marine plastic litter has become a major global concern, with one
of the highest plastic concentrations in the world's oceans found in the Wider Caribbean …

Persistent Lagrangian transport patterns in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico

MK Gough, FJ Beron-Vera… - Journal of Physical …, 2019 - journals.ametsoc.org
Persistent Lagrangian transport patterns at the ocean surface are revealed from
climatological Lagrangian coherent structures (cLCSs) computed from daily climatological …

Explicit and implicit network connectivity: Analytical formulation and application to transport processes

E Ser-Giacomi, T Legrand, I Hernandez-Carrasco… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Connectivity is a fundamental structural feature of a network that determines the outcome of
any dynamics that happens on top of it. However, an analytical approach to obtain …