Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Kunz, Luca; Griesel, Alexa; Eden, Carsten; Duran, Rodrigo; Sainte-Rose, Bruno

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1611-2024

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1611-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1611-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 6

Research article

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05 Dec 2024

Research article |

| 05 Dec 2024

Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Luca Kunz, Alexa Griesel, Carsten Eden, Rodrigo Duran, and Bruno Sainte-Rose

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-20-1611-2024-supplement

Data sets

Datasets to Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Luca Kunz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10993736

Model code and software

Track and analyse Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Luca Kunz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12761096

Video supplement

Supplementary Videos to Transient Attracting Profiles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch Luca Kunz https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10943728

Short summary

Transient Attracting Profiles (TRAPs) indicate the most attracting regions of the flow and have the potential to facilitate offshore cleanups in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We study the characteristics of TRAPs and the prospects for predicting debris transport from a mesoscale-permitting dataset. Our findings show the relevance of TRAP lifetime estimations to an operational application, and our TRAP tracking algorithm may even benefit other challenges that are related to search at sea.