Distribution of water soluble components from Arctic marine oil spills - A combined laboratory and field study

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-105

  Faksness, Liv Guri ^a   Brandvik, Per Johan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^b SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Field experiments; Oil spills; Petroleum hydrocarbons; Sea ice; WAF

Indexed keywords

CANNING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CRUDE PETROLEUM; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FOOD PRESERVATION; FUEL OILS; MARINE POLLUTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILLS; OILS AND FATS; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC MARINE; BOTTOM ICE; CONCENTRATION GRADIENT; CRUDE OILS; EXPOSURE TIME; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FIELD STUDIES; FIRST-YEAR SEA ICE; FUNCTION OF TIME; HEAVY FUEL OIL; ICE BIOTA; ICE SURFACES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; OIL COMPONENTS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; WAF; WATER SOLUBLE COMPONENTS;

ICE;

BRINE; DISSOLUTION; OIL SPILL; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 52749091772     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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