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Sinking microplastics in the water column: simulations in the Mediterranean Sea
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This study used computer simulations to model how microplastics sink through the water column in the Mediterranean Sea. Understanding sinking behavior is important for predicting where microplastics accumulate on the seafloor and how they move through marine food webs.
Trabajo presentado en el IFISC Poster Party (online).-- The IFISC Poster Party is an annual activity where PhD students and postdoctoral researchers of IFISC present their research in a poster format.-- Nonlinear dynamics in fluids.
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