Utilization of the Northern Gulf Operational Forecast System to Predict Trajectories of Surface Oil from a Persistent Source Offshore of the Mississippi River Delta

MacFadyen, Amy; Wei, Eugene; Warren, Christopher; Henry, Charlie; Watabayashi, Glen

doi:10.7901/2169-3358-2014.1.531

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Utilization of the Northern Gulf Operational Forecast System to Predict Trajectories of Surface Oil from a Persistent Source Offshore of the Mississippi River Delta

Published in International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings • May 1, 2014

Authors:

Amy MacFadyen

Eugene Wei

Christopher Warren

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate the use of a new operational, unstructured-grid hydrodynamic model within the oil spill trajectory model GNOME (the General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment) to examine the transport of surface oil from a known source approximately 10 miles offshore of the...

Subject

Trajectory

Submarine pipeline

Bathymetry

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