Marine oil fate: Knowledge gaps, basic research, and development needs; a perspective based on the deepwater horizon spill

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 87-93

  Thibodeaux, Louis J ^a   Valsaraj, Kalliat T ^a   John, Vijay T ^b   Papadopoulos, Kyriakos D ^b   Pratt, Lawrence R ^b   Pesika, Noshir S ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

blowout; dispersants in oil; hydrocarbon plumes; oil mass balance; oil transport and fate; oildroplet clouds

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON; OIL DISPERSANT;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEXICO; NOTE; OIL SPILL; PLUME; SEASHORE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 79951961907     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2010.0276     Document Type: Note

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