Impacts of Loop Current Frontal Cyclonic Eddies and Wind Forcing on the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record Breaking Enterprise

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 103-116

  Walker, Nan D ^a   Pilley, Chet T ^a   Raghunathan, Vandana V ^a   D'Sa, Eurico J ^a   Leben, Robert ^b   Hoffmann, Nicholas G ^b   Brickley, Peter J ^c   Coholan, Patrice D ^c   Sharma, Neha ^c   Graber, Hans C ^d   Turner, Raymond E ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c HORIZON MARINE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

BP oil spill motion; Cyclone merger; Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Loop Current circulation; Loop Current frontal eddies; Satellite tracking of oil

Indexed keywords

DEEPWATER DRILLING; INFILL DRILLING; MARINE POLLUTION; MERGING; OCEAN CURRENTS; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; OIL SPILLS; SATELLITES; SPACE-BASED RADAR; STORMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BP OIL SPILL MOTION; DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; LOOP CURRENT; NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE TRACKING;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

EID: 84951741209     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001120     Document Type: Chapter

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