Surface Drift Predictions of the Deepwater Horizon Spill: The Lagrangian Perspective

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 179-195

  Huntley, Helga S ^a   Lipphardt, B L ^a   Kirwan, A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drift prediction; Gulf of Mexico; Lagrangian coherent structures; Oil spill simulation; Pollution response; Spill forecast assessment

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; DEEPWATER DRILLING; DRILLING PLATFORMS; INFILL DRILLING; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LYAPUNOV METHODS; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILLS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

DEEPWATER HORIZONS; DEFORMATION PATTERN; DRIFT PREDICTIONS; GULF OF MEXICO; LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; PASSIVE TRACER ADVECTION; REGIONAL CIRCULATION MODELING;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84951788762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001097     Document Type: Chapter

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