Oil spill monitoring and forecasting on the Prestige-Nassau accident

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

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1013-1030

  Montero, P ^a,b   Blanco, J ^a   Cabanas, J M ^a   Maneiro, J ^a   Pazos, Y ^a   Morono A ^a   Balseiro, C F ^b   Carracedo, P ^b   Gomez, B ^b   Penabad, E ^b   Perez Munuzuri V ^b   Braunschweig, F ^c   Fernandes, R ^c   Leitao, P C ^c   Neves, R ^c  

^a Unidade de Observ Proxima CPAM   (Spain)

^b MeteoGalicia CMA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC VEHICLES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; HULLS (SHIP); LEAKAGE (FLUID); OIL SPILLS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WIND;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; DRIFT MODEL; SUBSURFACE LAYER; SURFACE CURRENT; SURFACE WINDS; TECHNICAL SEMINARS; WIND FORCES; WIND SPEED;

MARINE POLLUTION;

EID: 3543037607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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