Oil Spill Risk Analysis Model and Its Application to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Using Historical Current and Wind Data

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 227-236

  Ji, Zhen Gang ^a   Johnson, Walter R ^a   Li, Zhen ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; Deepwater spill; Gulf of Mexico; Oil spill; OSRA; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

MARINE POLLUTION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BUREAU OF OCEAN ENERGY MANAGEMENTS; DEEPWATER; DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILLS; DEEPWATER HORIZONS; GULF OF MEXICO; OCEAN SURFACE CURRENTS; OSRA; U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT;

OIL SPILLS;

EID: 84951796253     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GM001117     Document Type: Chapter

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