Data needs to reliably hindcast a spill's impact: The PEPCO pipeline spill of April 2000 as case example

Environment Canada Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program Technical Seminar (AMOP) Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 827-853

  McCay, Deborah French ^a   Rowe, Jill J ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Subbayya ^a   Etkin, Dagmar Schmidt ^b  

^a Applied Science Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Environmental Research Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TRAJECTORIES;

BIOLOGICAL MODELING; DENSITY ESTIMATES; MARINE OIL SPILLS; MODEL ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; SURFACE CURRENT DATA; TECHNICAL SEMINARS; VANCOUVER , BRITISH COLUMBIA;

PIPELINES;

EID: 33750262491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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