Mikael L. A. Kaandorp

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively discuss what is known about the different processes that govern the transport of floating marine plastic debris in both the open ocean and the coastal zones, based on the published literature and referring to insights from neighbouring fields such as oil spill dispersion, marine safety recovery, plankton connectivity, and others.

TL;DR: An inverse modeling methodology is presented here for a Lagrangian ocean model, estimating floating plastic quantities in the Mediterranean Sea, and time scales for the sinks are found, and likely sources of plastics can be ranked in importance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the fragmentation process in the oceanic environment by considering a model which captures continuous fragmentation of particles over time in a cascading fashion, and simulate particle size distributions (PSDs), specifying the abundance or mass of particles for different size classes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model which captures continuous fragmentation of particles over time in a cascading fashion was proposed, and the model quantifies the role of fragmentation on the marine plastic mass budget.

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of particle size and density on the large-scale transport of microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea and next analyze how fragmentation may affect transport and mass loss of plastics.