First day of an oil spill on the open sea: Early mass transfers of hydrocarbons to air and water

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 9400-9411

  Gros, Jonas ^a,b   Nabi, Deedar ^a,b   Würz, Birgit ^c   Wick, Lukas Y ^c   Brussaard, Corina P D ^d,e   Huisman, Johannes ^f   Van Der Meer, Jan R ^g   Reddy, Christopher M ^h   Arey, J Samuel ^a,b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^d ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f Response Organisation RWS ZeeandDelta   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; MASS TRANSFER; OIL SHALE; OIL SPILLS; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; SURFACE WATERS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; COMPREHENSIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LIMITED INFORMATION; MASS TRANSFER MODELING; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS;

HYDROCARBONS;

ALKANE; ANTHRACENE; BENZENE; HYDROCARBON; NAPHTHALENE; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; TOLUENE; VOLATILE AGENT; WATER; AIR POLLUTANT; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; HYDROCARBON; MARINE POLLUTION; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL SPILL; OPEN OCEAN; PARTITIONING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

AIR; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISPERSION; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; FRACTIONATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; NORTH SEA; OIL SPILL; SEA; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VAPOR PRESSURE; WIND; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER POLLUTANT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NORTH SEA; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84906269240     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es502437e     Document Type: Article

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