The Grounding of Floating Objects in a Marginal Sea

• Published in: Journal of physical oceanography Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 537 - 551
• Main Author: Pawlowicz, R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston American Meteorological Society 01.01.2021
• Subjects: Beach morphology; Beaches; Coastal morphology; Coasts; Datasets; Debris; Design; Diffusion coefficients; Diffusivity; Drifters; Eddy diffusion; Eddy diffusivity; Floating; Fluxes; Global positioning systems; GPS; Groundings; High tide; Lagrangian current measurement; Marginal seas; Mathematical models; Numerical methods; Numerical simulations; Offshore; Satellites; Stationary processes; Velocity; Vortices; Strait of Georgia; Salish Sea

Abstract Beaches, especially at or above the high tide line, are often covered in debris. An obvious approach to understanding the source of this debris elsewhere in the ocean is to use Lagrangian methods (observationally or in numerical simulations). However, the actual grounding of these floating...