Retraction Note to: Simulate oil spill weathering with system dynamic model

Interferometric oil-spill detection system

Uen-Chin Liang National Tsinghua University Department of Atomic Science Hsinchu 30043, Taiwan Abstract. Oil spillage in a body of water has been of great environmental concern. We present in this paper an automatic oil-spill detection system, which employs thin-film and wavefront-splitting interference techniques to determine the existence of surface oil or oil drops in water. Two independent ...

Tracking the Weathering of an Oil Spill with Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC)was used to investigate theBouchard 120 oil spill. The latter occurred on April 25, 2003, when the barge Bouchard 120 spilled ∼375,000 liters of No. 6 fuel oil into Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. In order to gain a better understanding of the natural processes affecting the fate of the spilled product, we collected and analyzed oil-covered r...

Revisions of the ADIOS oil spill model

For several years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hazardous Materials Response Division (NOAA/HAZMAT) has been using and distributing the computer software package called ADIOS (Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills) to aid responders in oil spill cleanup. ADIOS forecasts the weathering processes and characteristics of oil slicks. Based on new research results and analysis...

Evaluation of an Oil Spill Trajectory Model Using Satellite-tracked, Oil-spill-simulating Drifters

We deployed ninety-seven oil-spillsimulating drifters over the continental shelf of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico during five hydrographic surveys conducted from 1997 through 1999. Earlier, sideby-side comparisons with spilled crude petroleum on the ocean surface had demonstrated that these drifters moved on the ocean surface like consolidated oil slicks under light to moderate winds. (Under ...

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