Simulating Oil Droplet Dispersal From the Deepwater Horizon Spill With a Lagrangian Approach

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 217-226

  North, Elizabeth W ^a   Adams, E Eric ^b   Schlag, Zachary ^a   Sherwood, Christopher R ^c   He, Ruoying ^d   Hyun, Kyung Hoon ^d   Socolofsky, Scott A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; Hydrodynamic model; Oil droplets; Oil spill; Particle tracking model; Plume model

Indexed keywords

HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS;

DEEPWATER HORIZONS; HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL; OIL DROPLETS; PARTICLE TRACKING MODELS; PLUME MODEL;

DROPS;

EID: 84951776184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001102     Document Type: Chapter

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