plasticparcels

plasticparcels is a python package for simulating the transport and dispersion of plastics in the ocean.

The tool is based on the Parcels computational Lagrangian ocean analysis framework (@Lange2017 and @Delandmeter2019), providing a modular and customisable collection of methods, notebooks, and tutorials for advecting virtual plastic particles with a wide range of physical properties.

Installation

plasticparcels can be installed using conda from the conda-forge channel with the following command:

conda install conda-forge::plasticparcels

Community contributions and support

Contributing code

We welcome contributions to plasticparcels, especially example workbooks and analyses for our public examples page. To contribute to the project, please submit a pull request.

Requesting features and reporting issues/bugs

If you want to request a new feature, or if you find an issue or bug in the code, please open an issue in the plasticparcels issue tracker.

Seeking support?

If you would like support using plasticparcels, or are have any questions about your plasticparcels simulations, please start a discussion in the plasticparcels discussion page.

Further information

For more information and documentation, see the plasticparcels documentation.