Progress in operational modeling in support of oil spill response

CH Barker, VH Kourafalou, CJ Beegle-Krause… - Journal of marine …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident of a massive blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico,
scientists from government, industry, and academia collaborated to advance oil spill …

Oil Transport Following the Deepwater Horizon Blowout

MC Boufadel, T Özgökmen… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was the largest in US history,
covering more than 1,000 km of shorelines and causing losses that exceeded $50 billion …

What proportion of riverine nutrients reaches the open ocean?

J Sharples, JJ Middelburg, K Fennel… - Global …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, rivers deliver significant quantities of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the
coastal ocean each year. Currently, there are no viable estimates of how much of this N and …

Backwater and river plume controls on scour upstream of river mouths: Implications for fluvio‐deltaic morphodynamics

MP Lamb, JA Nittrouer, D Mohrig… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment flux from rivers to oceans is the fundamental driver of fluvio‐deltaic
morphodynamics and continental margin sedimentation, yet sediment transport across the …

The fate of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in a river‐influenced ocean margin

CG Fichot, R Benner - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The mineralization of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon (tDOC) discharged by rivers can
impact nutrient and trace metal cycling, biological productivity, net ecosystem metabolism …

The marine inorganic carbon system along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coasts of the United States: Insights from a transregional coastal carbon study

ZA Wang, R Wanninkhof, WJ Cai… - Limnology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Distributions of total alkalinity (TA), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), and other parameters
relevant to the marine inorganic carbon system were investigated in shelf and adjacent …

Characteristics of the Changjiang plume and its extension along the Jiangsu Coast

H Wu, J Shen, J Zhu, J Zhang, L Li - Continental Shelf Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The major patterns of the Changjiang plume have been identified based on the Empirical
Orthogonal Function and the freshwater flux analysis of the long-term model simulations …

Structure of the freshened surface layer in the Kara Sea during ice‐free periods

AA Osadchiev, DI Frey, SA Shchuka… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This work is focused on the seasonal and interannual variability of the freshened surface
layer (FSL) in the Kara Sea during ice‐free periods. The majority of annual freshwater runoff …

Quantifying coastal freshwater extremes during unprecedented rainfall using long timeseries multi-platform salinity observations

N Malan, M Roughan, M Hemming… - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
During 2022, extreme rainfall occurred across southeast Australia, making it the wettest year
on record. The oceanic impact of extreme rainfall events in normally 'dry'regions is not well …

Surface evolution of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill patch: combined effects of circulation and wind-induced drift

M Le Hénaff, VH Kourafalou, CB Paris… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Following the Deepwater Horizon blowout, major concerns were raised about the probability
that the Loop Current would entrain oil at the surface of the Gulf of Mexico toward South …