Articles | Volume 19, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2211-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-2211-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Modelling submerged biofouled microplastics and their vertical trajectories
Reint Fischer
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Merel Kooi
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Albert Koelmans
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands
Victor Onink
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Charlotte Laufkötter
Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Linda Amaral-Zettler
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, the Netherlands
Andrew Yool
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Erik van Sebille
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Centre for Complex Systems Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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Since current estimates show that only about 1 % of the all plastic that enters the ocean is floating at the surface, we look at subsurface processes that can cause vertical movement of (micro)plastic. We investigate how modelled algal attachment and the ocean's vertical movement can cause particles to sink and oscillate in the open ocean. Particles can sink to depths of > 5000 m in regions with high wind intensity and mainly remain close to the surface with low winds and biological activity.
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