Introduction to monitoring and modeling the deepwater horizon oil spill

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 195, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-7

  Liu, Yonggang ^a   MacFadyen, Amy ^b   Ji, Zhen Gang ^c   Weisberg, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Bureau of Ocean Energy Management   (United States)

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EID: 84887267869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001147     Document Type: Review

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