Cartographie et modélisation des déchets marins

Report


Title: Distribution of marine litter along the Ría de Arousa coastline using modelling and mapping
Responsible Partner: INTECMAR
Date: Septembre 2021
Download: Link
Description: The document describes the methodology developed for the location of the accumulation zones of marine litter in the Ría de Arousa using numerical models, a local scenario located in Galicia, NW of Spain.


Title: Guide for shoreline segmentation in buffers using QGIS
Responsible Partner: INTECMAR
Date: December 2020
Download: Link
Description: The goal of this guide is to describe the methodology to obtain a GIS file that contains the coastal sections where the marine litter particles that arrived to the coast can be counted. Each coastline section is actually a polygon, consisting of a piece of coastline and a certain thickness, which is where the particle is considered to have beached.

 

Software


Title: MOHID Lagrangian Tool: Software necessary to include marine litter processes in an open source lagrangian transport tool
Responsible Partner: IST and USC
Date: Septembre 2021
Download: Software, Installation guide (pdf), Short user guide (pdf)
Description: This software includes marine litter processes in an open source lagrangian transport model (The MOHID Lagrangian Tool). An installation guide, and short installation guide are also available for download.

 

Publications


Title: Validation of a Lagrangian model for large-scale macroplastic tracer transport using mussel-peg in NW Spain (Ría de Arousa)
Responsible Partner: USC, INTECMAR & MARETEC
Date: May 2022
Download: Link
Description:In this work, a validation of a recently developed Lagrangian computational model to track the movement of macro plastics in seas and oceans is presented. This validation is performed on a regional scale, in the Ría de Arousa, one of the most important estuaries for mussel cultivation in northwestern Spain. During mussel cultivation in rafts, a type of floating plastic stick are released, the mussel-pegs. The potential of this study is that to compare the accumulation results of the model with the accumulation data collected on the Galician beaches. 

 


Title:Modeling the Exposure of the Macaronesia Islands (NE Atlantic) to Marine Plastic Pollution
Responsible Partner: ARDITI
Date: April 2021
Download: Link
Description: In this study, the potential sources and pathways of marine plastic litter reaching the archipelagos of the Macaronesia region (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands and Cabo Verde) were assessed by coupling a particle tracking model (OceanParcels) with datasets for ocean currents (GLORYS12V1 and GLORYS2V4), waves (WaveWatch III) and wind (ECMWF ERA-Interim).

 


Title: Dynamics of floating marine debris in the northern Iberian waters: A model approach
Responsible Partner: IEO Vigo
 Date: February 2019
Download: Link to publication
Description: In this work, the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS), in conjunction with a particle-tracking model, has been used to study the distribution of floating debris in the northern Iberian waters.

 

Participation in Conferences and Symposiums


Title: Dynamics of floating marine debris in the northern Iberian waters: A model approach
Responsible Partner: IEO Vigo
Date & event: 19th -23rd November 2018, MICRO 2018, Lanzarote (Spain)
Download: Abstract 
Description: In this work, the Regional Ocean Modelling System (ROMS), in conjunction with a particle-tracking model, has been used to study the distribution of floating debris in the northern Iberian waters.

 


Title: Marine litter modelling and hotspots detection in the Atlantic Area.
Responsible Partner: USC
Date & event: 23rd – 25th January 2019, Atlantic from Space Conference (ESA) in Southampton, UK.
Download: Abstract
Description: This work describes the development of a tool for modelling marine litter in the Atlantic Area.