Gulfspill Version 2.0: A software package for oil spills in the Arabian Gulf

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 425-442

  Al Rabeh, A H ^a   Lardner, R W ^a   Gunay, N ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian Gulf; Oil spill model; Oil spill software

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OIL SPILLS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE GULFSPILL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL HYDRODYNAMICAL MODELS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; MODELING; OIL SPILL; SOFTWARE;

PERSIAN GULF;

EID: 0034124463     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(00)00013-X     Document Type: Article

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