2010 oil spill: Trajectory projections based on ensemble drifter analyses

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 829-839

  Chang, Yu Lin ^a,b   Oey, Leo ^a   Xu, Fang Hua ^a   Lu, Hung Fu ^a,b   Fujisaki, Ayumi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Drifters; Ensemble analysis; Gulf of Mexico; Loop Current; Oil spill

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MEASUREMENTS; DRIFTERS; ENSEMBLE ANALYSIS; GULF OF MEXICO; LOOP CURRENT; MEAN CURRENTS; MODEL ANALYSIS; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; OIL SPILL TRAJECTORY; SATELLITE IMAGES;

CLIMATOLOGY; OIL SPILLS; STORMS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

CLIMATOLOGY; DRIFTER; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OIL SPILL; POLLUTION MONITORING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 79957897576     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0397-4     Document Type: Article

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