On the modeling of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 322-340

  Mariano, A J ^a   Kourafalou, V H ^a   Srinivasan, A ^a,d   Kang, H ^a   Halliwell, G R ^b   Ryan, E H ^a   Roffer, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Roffer's Ocean Fishing Forecasting Service Inc (ROFFS)   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Lagrangian trajectory prediction; Numerical model; Oil spill

Indexed keywords

CURRENT FIELDS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEPWATER; EULERIAN; FIRST SYSTEMS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GULF OF MEXICO; HIGH RESOLUTION; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN STOCHASTIC MODELS; LAGRANGIAN TRAJECTORIES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SCHEMES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN SURFACES; OIL PARTICLES; OIL REMOVAL; ONE-NUMBER; PARAMETERIZED; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE MOTIONS; PARTICLE REMOVAL; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REMOVAL RATE; SATELLITE-BASED ANALYSIS; SIZE RANGES; SUBGRID SCALE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; VELOCITY FIELD; WATER COLUMNS; WEATHERING PROCESS;

DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE POLLUTION; MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL SPILLS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SURFACE WATERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; TRAJECTORIES; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; WEATHERING;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DEEP WATER; FORECASTING METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CURRENT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OIL SPILL; PARTICLE MOTION; STOCHASTICITY; TRAJECTORY; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 80053132092     PISSN: 03770265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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