Seawater capacitance – a promising proxy for mapping and characterizing drifting hydrocarbon plumes in the deep ocean
Hydrocarbons released into the deep ocean are an inevitable consequence of natural seep, seafloor drilling, and leaking wellhead-to-collection-point pipelines. The Macondo 252 (Deepwater Horizon) well blowout of 2010 was even larger than the Ixtoc event in the Gulf of Campeche in 1979. History sugge...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Ocean Science |
| Online Access: | http://www.ocean-sci.net/8/1099/2012/os-8-1099-2012.pdf |