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Articles | Volume 20, issue 6
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

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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.
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