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Stokes drift is the small net forward movement of fluid particles in the direction a wave travels, arising because a particle moves slightly faster under a crest than backward under a trough, so each orbit does not quite close. Van den Bremer and Breivik's 2018 review Stokes drift sets out the theory and its reach, from surface ocean waves to the transport of plankton, pollutants, and floating debris. The referent is the mean Lagrangian velocity of a wave field, measured as a drift speed that decays with depth, central to how the sea moves material even where there is no steady current.[1]
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