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We monitor all areas and countries affected by sargassum. We share best practices for preserving coastal sea fauna and flora. Sargassum seaweed, originally beneficial to the marine ecosystem, has been spreading dangerously since 2011 due to human pollution.
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Conclusion. A first conclusion was obvious: to prevent the...
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Based on current forecasts from “HYCOM” and wind forecasts...
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The installation of barriers diverting sargassum seaweed...
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- Florida USA
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- Mexico Riviera Maya
Forecast Sargassum Seaweed Riviera Maya Mexico. Cancun –...
- Republica Dominicana
Updated on October 06, 2024. Notes: – CLS – SAMtool /...
- Puerto Rico USA
How are Sargassum stranding forecasts calculated ? Sargassum...
- Sargassum
7 kwi 2023 · Patches of floating brown seaweed—known as Sargassum—have stretched from the west coast of Africa to the Gulf of Mexico in what is known as the “Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt.” In March 2023, scientists found that the amount of Sargassum floating in the belt was the largest of any March on record.
2 dni temu · Based on current forecasts from “HYCOM” and wind forecasts from “NCEP”, it is possible to estimate the trajectory of the sargassum and its possible arrival along Caribbean beaches. The image in this animation corresponds to 7 days, as you can see from the dates at the top of the image.
16 sty 2024 · Last year’s 5,500-mile-long swath of yellow-brown seaweed stretching over the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico was called the Great Sargassum Belt. Perhaps what’s growing out there this year should be christened “colossal.”
19 paź 2022 · Click here to see where the Sargassum blooms are in the SECOORA region. The Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) provides real-time satellite images that show Sargassum location, amount, and trajectory.
24 sty 2024 · USF researchers hope to improve forecasting for sargassum blooms to pinpoint specific beaches, and to develop ways to reduce the impacts on coastal communities.
12 wrz 2023 · The spring of 2023 brought headlines about “giant blobs of seaweed” 1 —a brown alga called Sargassum—hitting Atlantic Ocean beaches from Florida through the Caribbean and South America. But this was not the first time Sargassum has confounded beachgoers.
