Ocean currents and garbage patches (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Ocean currents and garbage patches

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Inferred reactive probability currents of marine debris into garbage patches (red boxes). Black boxes indicate coastal boxes from which those currents emerge. The color of the arrows represents the probability of the transition route.

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Philippe Miron, Francisco Beron-Vera, Luzie Helfmann, and Peter Koltai.

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