High-Resolution Remote Sensing, In-Situ Observations, and Modeling of Low-Salinity Lenses in the Presence of Oil Slick

  • Alexander Soloviev
  • , Breanna L Vanderplow
  • , Cayla Dean
  • , Egbert Schwarz
  • , Susanne Lehner
  • , Hui Shen
  • , William Perrie
  • , Paul Schuler

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Abstract

River runoff on the Louisiana Coast produces shallow, low-salinity lenses. Due to the presence of a leaking oil platform (Taylor Energy), the fine structure of these lenses is visible in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In this paper, we report results of the comprehensive study including high-resolution remote sensing and in-situ observations of low-salinity lenses on the Louisiana Coast as well as modeling the lens using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. Our results indicate that these transient near-surface lenses create significant horizontal density gradients and spread as gravity currents, influencing the propagation of oil slicks.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages5753-5756
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 17 2021
EventIGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - Waikoloa, HI, USA, Waikoloa, United States
Duration: Sep 26 2020Oct 2 2020
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9323073/proceeding

Conference

ConferenceIGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikoloa
Period9/26/2010/2/20
Internet address

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Keywords

  • Lenses
  • Oils
  • Computational modeling
  • Computational fluid dynamics
  • Satellites
  • Salinity (geophysical)
  • Synthetic aperture radar
  • SAR
  • river runoff
  • low-salinity lenses
  • oil slicks

Disciplines

  • Marine Biology
  • Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology

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