Numerical simulations of the spread of floating passive tracer released at the Old Harry prospect

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Bourgault, Daniel ^a   Cyr, Frédéric ^a   Dumont, Dany ^a   Carter, Angela ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispersion; Gulf of St. Lawrence; Policy and law; spill Old Harry; Surface currents

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS; EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT; GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION; SURFACE CURRENT;

RESEARCH;

COAST; CURRENT DIRECTION; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL SPILL; PRIVATE SECTOR; TRACER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CAPE BRETON; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; LAURENTIAN CHANNEL; MAGDALEN ISLANDS; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NOVA SCOTIA; PORT AU PORT PENINSULA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84928096433     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/5/054001     Document Type: Article

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