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Supplementary material to "Technical note: On the importance of a three-dimensional approach for modelling the transport of neustic microplastics"
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Technical note: On the importance of a three-dimensional approach for modelling the transport of neustic microplastics
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Researchers modeled the transport of buoyant microplastics in surface waters using a 3D Lagrangian approach, finding that ignoring vertical mixing significantly underestimates horizontal dispersal distances compared to 2D models. The results highlight the importance of three-dimensional modeling for accurately predicting where microplastics end up in marine environments.
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