Publications by authors named "Paola de Ruggiero"

The high-resolution Campania Regional Ocean Model (CROM), coupled with an online Lagrangian particle tracking algorithm, is used to investigate the horizontal and vertical behavior of different (in terms of size and density) plastic polymer types during February and August 2016 in the Gulf of Naples. The transport of passive particles is evaluated based on the three-dimensional Eulerian velocity fields provided by the ocean model. The virtual particles are released in several hot spot areas in the Gulf of Naples where most of the marine debris is supposed to come from.

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Several ocean Western Boundary Currents (WBCs) encounter a lateral gap along their path. Examples are the Kuroshio Current penetrating into the South China Sea through the Luzon Strait and the Gulf of Mexico Loop Current leaping from the Yucatan peninsula to Florida as part of the Gulf Stream system. Here, we present results on WBC relevant flows, generated in the world's largest rotating platform, where the Earth's sphericity necessary to support WBCs is realized by an equivalent topographic effect.

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