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Transition paths of marine debris and the stability of the garbage patches

  • 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 chain model constructed from trajectories produced by satellite-tracked undrogued buoys from the NOAA Global Drifter Program. The latter involved coping with the openness of the system in physical space, which further required an adaptation of the standard TPT setting. Directly connecting pollution sources along coastlines with garbage patches of varied strengths, the unveiled reactive pollution routes represent alternative targets for ocean cleanup efforts. Among our specific findings we highlight: constraining a highly probable pollution source for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; characterizing the weakness of the Indian Ocean gyre as a trap for plastic waste; and unveiling a tendency of the subtropical gyres to export garbage toward the coastlines rather than to other gyres in the event of anomalously intense winds.

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Author:Philippe Miron, Francisco Beron-Vera, Luzie HelfmannORCiD, Péter Koltai
Document Type:Article
Parent Title (German):Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Volume:31
Issue:3
Year of first publication:2021
ArXiv Id:http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11234
DOI:https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0030535
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