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Floating marine debris represent a threat to marine and coastal ecology.Since the Mediterranean basin is one of the highly impacted regions, both bythe coastal pollution as well as from sea traffic, the potential harm of afloating pollution on the marine ecology could be overwhelming in this area.Our study area covers the central Mediterranean crossing that connects thewestern and eastern Mediterranean and is one of the areas impacted by a highintensity of sea traffic. To identify regions in the central Mediterranean thatcould be more exposed by high concentration of floating marine pollutants weuse Leeway model for lower windage small-size particles. We perform numericalsimulation of a large ensemble of Lagrangian particles that approximate at-seadebris. The particles are forced by high-resolution sea kinematics from theCopernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS) and 10 m atmosphericwind from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) fortwo reference periods in summer and winter of 2013--2016. We identify theregions with a high accumulation of particles in terms of particle surfacedensities per unit area. Although seasonal and annual variability of oceancurrent and atmospheric wind is an important factor that influencesaccumulation regimes across the central Mediterranean, we found that the borderof the Libyan shelf harbors larger percentage of particles after 30 days ofsimulation.

Modeling of small sea floaters in the central Mediterranean Sea: seasonality of at-sea distributions