Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the initial footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, new research reveals.
A
study led by scientists at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of
Marine and Atmospheric Science combined oil-transport modeling with
remote sensing and in-water analysis to gain a comprehensive
understanding of what took place after the oil spill on April 20, 2010.
"We
found that there was a substantial fraction of oil invisible to
satellites and aerial imaging," said the study's lead author, Igal
Berenshtein, a postdoctoral researcher at the UM Rosenstiel School, in a
statement. "The spill was only visible to satellites above a certain oil concentration at the surface leaving a portion unaccounted for."When the oil rig exploded, 210 million gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days — making the disaster the country's largest oil spill. Oil slicks covered about 57,000 square miles.
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https://phys.org/news/2020-02-deepwater-horizon-oil-larger-previously.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uomr-nss021020.php
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