Estimating oil concentration and flow rate with calibrated vessel-mounted acoustic echo sounders

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20240-20245

  Weber, Thomas C ^a   De Robertis, Alex ^b   Greenaway, Samuel F ^c   Smith, Shep ^c   Mayer, Larry ^a   Rice, Glen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic remote sensing; Deepwater Horizon; Gulf of Mexico; Oil plume

Indexed keywords

OIL; WELL WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FLOW RATE; OIL SPILL; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SEA; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VESSEL MOUNTED ACOUSTIC ECHO SOUNDER;

EID: 84870886697     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108771108     Document Type: Article

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