Evolution of the optical properties of seawater influenced by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Zhengzhen ^a   Guo, Laodong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; dissolved organic matter; fluorescence EEM; Gulf of Mexico; Macondo well; oil spill

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863529487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/2/025301     Document Type: Article

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