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Microplastic samplings and inverse trajectory recognition in the Mediterranean Sea

2018 6 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count.
Agnese Pini, Paolo Tomassetti, Marco Matiddi, G. Andrea de Lucia, Andrea Camedda, Giorgio Zampetti, Chiara Lattanzi, Giovanni Leuzzi, Paolo Monti

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Using data from a 2015 Mediterranean microplastic sampling campaign alongside ocean circulation analysis, this study applied inverse trajectory modeling to estimate the likely sources and accumulation zones of microplastic pollution across nine Italian coastal locations.

In this work data of the Goletta Verde microplastic sampling campaign conducted, in 2015, in the Mediterranean Sea are presented together with the marine circulation analysis of the same domain. Both surface and 15m-depth sampling are realized in nine different Italian locations. A detailed analysis of wind stress, surface and subsurface velocity fields is conducted, on a smaller domain comprising two critical sampling locations, to estimate possible pollutant pathways. Inverse trajectories technique is used to evaluate feasible microplastic sources and accumulation zones.

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