Preliminary assessment of an oil-spill trajectory model using satellite-tracked, oil-spill-simulating drifters

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-270

  Price, James M ^a   Reed, Mark ^b   Howard, Matthew K ^c   Johnson, Walter R ^a   Ji, Zhen Gang ^a   Marshall, Charles F ^a   Guinasso Jr , Norman L ^c   Rainey, Gail B ^a  

^a MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Model assessment; Model verification; Oil spill model; Oil spill model assessment; Oil spill model verification; Statistical oil spill model; Trajectory model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SEAWATER; SIMULATORS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MODEL ASSESSMENT; MODEL VERIFICATION; NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO; OIL-SPILL MODEL; OIL-SPILL MODEL ASSESSMENT; OIL-SPILL MODEL VERIFICATION; STATISTICAL OIL-SPILL MODEL;

OIL SPILLS;

MODEL VALIDATION; OIL SPILL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 28844507213     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2004.04.025     Document Type: Conference Paper

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