Table 1.

Number of notable beaching cells from the observed dataset per beaching region of the WCPO.

Beaching region	No. of high density beaching cells	No. of beaching prone cells	No. of beaching resilient cells	No. of beaching events
North	0	0	0	137
Southwest	0	15	0	910
Southeast	11	4	2	319

High density cells = high number of beaching events and high local dFAD density (residuals from the linear model between number of beaching events and number of dFADs per 1° cell within the center 10^th percentile of the distribution and number of beaching above the 80^th percentile); beaching prone cells = significantly higher number of beaching events but low local dFAD density (residuals above the 90^th percentile); and beaching resilient cells = low number of beaching events and high local dFAD density (residuals below the 10^th percentile).