This study investigates the results of blending altimetry-based surface currents in the Gulf of
Mexico with available drifter observations. Here, subsets of trajectories obtained from the …

Lagrangian transport estimates are investigated using results from HF radar, model and
drifter data during a dedicated experiment in the Ligurian Current in the Toulon area (North …

One of the key challenges for oil spill response is forecasting the movement of the oil plume.
This is a classic Lagrangian transport problem, with a few added layers of complication …

A group of 30 surface drifters, launched over a 4day period as part of a US Navy exercise in
early October 2007, are used to assess the predictability of trajectories in a confined …

Very-near-surface ocean currents are dominated by wind and wave forcing and have large
impacts on the transport of buoyant materials in the ocean. Surface currents, however, are …

The ocean is a very complex medium with scales of motion that range from thousands of
kilometers to the dissipation scales. Transport by ocean currents plays an important role in …

The conventional ocean data assimilation process typically involves assimilating
hydrographic data, such as temperature and salinity measurements, obtained from both …

We present a new and fast method that blends altimetric and drifter positions data in order to
predict the surface velocity in the Eastern Levantine Mediterranean. The method relies on a …

Lagrangian coherent structures are time-evolving surfaces that highlight areas in flow fields
where neighboring advected particles diverge or converge. The detection and …

The general aim of this paper is to present a possible multidisciplinary approach to the
problem of connectivity among marine protected areas (MPAs) describing some of the …