Real-time monitoring of the millions of tonnes of plastic floating in the world’s oceans: this was the objective set by a team of American researchers, who have created a virtual tool to determine the trajectory of marine waste.
The research project, which has published results in the journal Frontiers In Marine Science, was coordinated by Eric Chassignet, the director of the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) and a professor at the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science at Florida State University in the United States.