Large-scale oil-in-ice experiment in the Barents Sea: Monitoring of oil in water and MetOcean interactions

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 976-984

  Faksness, Liv Guri ^a   Brandvik, Per Johan ^a   Daae, Ragnhild L ^a   Leirvik, Frode ^a   Børseth, Jan Fredrik ^b  

^a SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^b IRIS Biomiljø   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Dissolved hydrocarbons; MetOcean monitoring; Oil spill; Sea ice; Weathering

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC; BARENTS SEA; DISSOLVED HYDROCARBONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; ICE FIELDS; ICE FLOES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; METEOROLOGICAL AND OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA; METOCEAN; METOCEAN MONITORING; OIL WEATHERING; OIL-IN-WATER; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROCARBONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILLS; SEA ICE; SOIL MECHANICS; TOXICITY; WEATHERING;

MONITORING;

HYDROCARBON; ICE; OIL; SURFACE WATER;

HYDROCARBON; ICE FIELD; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA ICE; TOXICITY; WEATHERING;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEA; VELOCITY; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WEATHER; WIND;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PETROLEUM; SEAWATER; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 79955623078     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.02.039     Document Type: Article

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