Welcome!
This is the software platform for the transference of the results of the LAMARCA project.
LAMARCA tool contains customized data products and methods designed for the integrated management of coastal areas, focusing on the dispersion and accumulation of marine litter.
LAMARCA tool is composed by the following solutions:
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Real time metocean observations and forecasts -
Gap filling tools for HF radar data -
Lagrangian models -
Lagrangian analysis tools for Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS) and Lagrangian divergence -
Marine litter data, paths and hotspots
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These solutions are available in AZTI's github repository and the Getting Started Guide is readily available here.
The aim of this project is to further understand the role of oceanic transport in marine litter (microplastics and meso/macrolitter) dispersion and accumulation areas in the sea surface, along the water column and over the seafloor. With special emphasis on coastal zones and in the range of scales from 1 m to 10 km, where the vertical motions by marine currents play a relevant role. Focusing on the distribution of marine litter by ocean currents, we propose an approach that combines ocean-current structures, oceanographic campaigns, and new Lagrangian tools from complex systems to characterize marine connectivity and mixing properties in coastal waters.
LAMARCA is made up of 3 separe projects: LAMARCA-MODS Modeling, scale dependence and descriptors of frontal flows, LAMARCA-SC Structures of transport and connectivity patterns and LAMARCA-OMO Observation and monitoring in the Bay of Biscay and Balearic sea coastal areas. LAMARCA is focused on two different study areas in the Bay of Biscay (BoB) and the Western Mediterranean Sea (WMS), which are two regions extremely affected by the accumulation of marine litter.
🔵 Solution in progress
🔵 Solution in progress
🔵 Solution in progress
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🔵 Solution in progress
- Ehstand, N., Donner, R. V., López, C., and Hernández-García, E. (2023). Network percolation provides early warnings of abrupt changes in coupled oscillatory systems: An explanatory analysis. Phys. Rev. E 108, 054207. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054207
- Link to the paper: https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054207
- van de Vijsel, R. C., Hernández-García, E., Orfila, A., and Gomila, D. (2023). Optimal wave reflection as a mechanism for seagrass self-organization. Sci Rep 13, 20278. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-46788-4
- Link to the paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-46788-4
- Manso-Narvarte, I., Caballero, A., Hernández-Carrasco, I., Orfila, A., Santos Mocoroa, M., Cotano, U., et al. (2024). Effect of circulation at early life stages of European anchovy in the Bay of Biscay from observational data and a Lagrangian approach. Journal of Marine Systems 242, 103938. doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2023.103938
- Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924796323000829
- Bertin, S., Rubio, A., Hernández-Carrasco, I., Solabarrieta, L., Ruiz, I., Orfila, A., et al. (2024). Coastal current convergence structures in the Bay of Biscay from optimized high-frequency radar and satellite data. Science of The Total Environment 947, 174372. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174372
- Link to the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969724045200
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Anna Rubio - arubio@azti.es Irene Ruiz - iruiz@azti.es
Project Link: LAMARCA project.
The developing of this software platform has been supported by Grant Project PID2021-123352OB-C31, SP2: PID2021-123352OB-C32 and SP3: PID2021-123352OB-C33 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”