Surface trajectories of oil transport along the Northern Coastline of the Gulf of Mexico

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 17-47

  Dietrich, J C ^a   Trahan, C J ^a,j   Howard, M T ^b   Fleming, J G ^c   Weaver, R J ^d,k   Tanaka, S ^e,l   Yu, L ^f   Luettich, R A ^d   Dawson, C N ^a   Westerink, J J ^e   Wells, G ^b   Lu, A ^f   Vega, K ^a   Kubach, A ^a   Dresback, K M ^g   Kolar, R L ^g   Kaiser, C ^h   Twilley, R R ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Seahorse Coastal Consulting   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^f University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^g University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^h LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^j High Performance Technologies Inc   (United States)

^k Florida Institute of Technology   (United States)

^l Earthquake Research Institute   (Japan)

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Author keywords

ADCIRC; Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Nearshore waves and circulation; Particle tracking; SWAN

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BARRIER ISLAND; COAST; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DISPERSION; MARSH; NEARSHORE DYNAMICS; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; OIL PLATFORM; OIL SEEP; OIL SPILL; OIL WELL; PARTICLE MOTION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRAJECTORY; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861332081     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.03.015     Document Type: Article

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