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| Laxague, Nathan J. M.; Ozgokmen, Tamay M.; Haus, Brian K.; Novelli, Guillaume; Shcherbina, Andrey; Sutherland, Peter; Guigand, Cedric M.; Lund, Bjorn; Mehta, Sanchit; Alday, Matias; Molemaker, Jeroen. |
| Plastics and spilled oil pose a critical threat to marine life and human health. As a result of wind forcing and wave motions, theoretical and laboratory studies predict very strong velocity variation with depth over the upper few centimeters of the water column, an observational blind spot in the real ocean. Here we present the first-ever ocean measurements of the current vector profile defined to within 1 cm of the free surface. In our illustrative example, the current magnitude averaged over the upper 1 cm of the ocean is shown to be nearly four times the average over the upper 10 m, even for mild forcing. Our findings indicate that this shear will rapidly separate pieces of marine debris which vary in size or buoyancy, making consideration of these... |
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Palavras-chave: Ocean current shear; Near-surface currents; Marine plastics; Spilled oil; Lagrangian transport. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00425/53614/54443.pdf |
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| Santos, Amp; Nieblas, Anne-elise; Verley, P.; Teles-machado, A.; Bonhommeau, Sylvain; Lett, C.; Garrido, S.; Peliz, A.. |
| The European sardine (Sardina pilchardus) is the most important small pelagic fishery of the Western Iberia Upwelling Ecosystem (WIUE). Recently, recruitment of this species has declined due to changing environmental conditions. Furthermore, controversies exist regarding its population structure with barriers thought to exist between the Atlantic-Iberian Peninsula, Northern Africa, and the Mediterranean. Few studies have investigated the transport and dispersal of sardine eggs and larvae off Iberia and the subsequent impact on larval recruitment variability. Here, we examine these issues using a Regional Ocean Modeling System climatology (1989-2008) coupled to the Lagrangian transport model, Ichthyop. Using biological parameters from the literature, we... |
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Palavras-chave: Iberian Peninsula; Sardina pilchardus; Larval dispersal; Lagrangian transport; Ichthyop; Regional Ocean Modeling System. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00427/53814/54784.pdf |
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