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The effect of vertical mixing on the horizontal drift of oil spills
Division for Ocean and Ice, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Henrik Mohns Plass 1, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Knut-Frode Dagestad
Division for Ocean and Ice, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Henrik Mohns Plass 1, 0313 Oslo, Norway
Helene Asbjørnsen
Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Tor Nordam
SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Jørgen Skancke
SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway
Cathleen E. Jones
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
Camilla Brekke
Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
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Simulations of hypothetical oil spills are presented to investigate how the vertical mixing of oil affects transport towards various directions. It is shown that the horizontal transport of oil greatly varies for different oil types and weather conditions. These differences are a consequence of the entrainment of oil from the surface into the ocean. While oil spills often get entrained into the water by waves, we show that submerged oil typically resurfaces after a few hours or days.
Simulations of hypothetical oil spills are presented to investigate how the vertical mixing of...
