Author Correction: A global mass budget for positively buoyant macroplastic debris in the ocean

Correction to: Scientific Reports 10.1038/s41598-019-49413-5, published online 12 September 2019

This Article contains errors.

The Competing Interests section in this Article is incorrect and should read:

“The authors are employed by The Ocean Cleanup, a non-for-profit organization that develops technology to rid the oceans of plastic.”

In addition, the text for several equations is incorrect; Equation 6,

“${\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{m}}\left(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0\right)=\left(1+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{C}}\right)\ast {\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”

should read:

“${\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{m}}(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0)={\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{m}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{C}}\ast {\mathrm{C}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”

The text for Equation 7,

“${\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{m}}\left(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0\right)=(1+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{S}})\ast {\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”

should read:

“${\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{m}}\left(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0\right)={\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{m}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{S}}\ast {\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”

The text for Equation 8,

“${\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{m}}\left(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0\right)=(1+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{O}})\ast {\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”

should read:

“${\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{m}}(\mathrm{y},{\mathrm{y}}_0)={\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{m}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)+{\mathrm{d}}_{\mathrm{O}}\ast {\mathrm{O}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\mathrm{y}-1,{\mathrm{y}}_0)$”