The marine pollution caused by the release of plastics’ elements is a growing problem. The main sources of plastic litter found at sea are land-based: rivers, plants discharges, beaches, etc. One of the crucial phase to fight this problem is tracking these particles with the aim to identify their paths and thus their accumulation. In this framework, the TrackMPD model of Jalón-Rojas et al., 2019 was modified to allow the tracking of particles released in a long time series each day from some known locations (i.e. a number of rivers’ estuaries). Moreover, two new outputs were generated: density and beaching maps. The study was carried out in the patch of coastal area between the Liberia and the Gulf of Guinea within the GDA AID Marine Environment & Blue Economy project. The project, funded by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and World Bank, aims at implementing innovative Earth Observation services to assist International Funding Institutions teams in the framework of the marine environment and Blue Economy. The study is part of two Use Cases for the World Bank’s PROBLUE and West Africa Coastal Areas (WACA) programs, which focuse in the west Africa coastal area. Simulations were performed for the whole 2021 at daily scale by releasing five macroplastics from the main five rivers of the Liberia’s region. Copernicus marine services CMS sea current fields were considered as forcing (product GLOBAL_ANALYSISFORECAST_PHY_001_024) together with other ancillary data. Results confirmed that the plastic pollution at sea is a boundless issue, hard to be tackled

(05/06/2023-06/06/2023).Tracking sea floating plastics using CMS data through a novel application of the TrackMPD model.

Tracking sea floating plastics using CMS data through a novel application of the TrackMPD model

Corbari L.
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Capodici F.;Ciraolo G.;

Abstract

The marine pollution caused by the release of plastics’ elements is a growing problem. The main sources of plastic litter found at sea are land-based: rivers, plants discharges, beaches, etc. One of the crucial phase to fight this problem is tracking these particles with the aim to identify their paths and thus their accumulation. In this framework, the TrackMPD model of Jalón-Rojas et al., 2019 was modified to allow the tracking of particles released in a long time series each day from some known locations (i.e. a number of rivers’ estuaries). Moreover, two new outputs were generated: density and beaching maps. The study was carried out in the patch of coastal area between the Liberia and the Gulf of Guinea within the GDA AID Marine Environment & Blue Economy project. The project, funded by the European Space Agency in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank and World Bank, aims at implementing innovative Earth Observation services to assist International Funding Institutions teams in the framework of the marine environment and Blue Economy. The study is part of two Use Cases for the World Bank’s PROBLUE and West Africa Coastal Areas (WACA) programs, which focuse in the west Africa coastal area. Simulations were performed for the whole 2021 at daily scale by releasing five macroplastics from the main five rivers of the Liberia’s region. Copernicus marine services CMS sea current fields were considered as forcing (product GLOBAL_ANALYSISFORECAST_PHY_001_024) together with other ancillary data. Results confirmed that the plastic pollution at sea is a boundless issue, hard to be tackled
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(05/06/2023-06/06/2023).Tracking sea floating plastics using CMS data through a novel application of the TrackMPD model.
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