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Project Overview

Synthesis Core Area 1 - Plume & Circulation Observations & Modeling

Synthesis Motivators
John Shepherd
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

David Halpern
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

Cecilie Mauritzen
Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI)
Research Board Member

Synthesis Leads
Tamay M. Özgökmen
University of Miami
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science

Eric P. Chassignet
Florida State University
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS)

Summary:

GoMRI’s Synthesis Core Area 1, Plume & Circulation Observations & Modeling, focused on several physical oceanography areas of interest. Teams of GoMRI researchers collaborated to highlight research and modeling advances, and their relevance for oil transport and fate, in: 1) transport processes in the Gulf of Mexico along the river-wetland-estuary-coastal-open ocean continuum, 2) near-field, mid-field, and far-field dynamics of the plume, and 3) small-scale/near-surface/sub-mesoscale observations.

Journal Articles - 5

2021

Technology, N. J. I. o., Boufadel, M., Bracco, A., Chassignet, E., Chen, S., D’Asaro, E., Dewar, W., Garcia-Pineda, O., Justić, D., Katz, J., Kourafalou, V., MacDonald, I., Özgökmen, T., Paris-Limouzy, C., Socolofsky, S., Halpern, D., & Shepherd, J. (2021). Physical Transport Processes that Affect the Distribution of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico: Observations and Modeling. Oceanography, 34(1), 58-75.
Justić, D., Kourafalou, V., Mariotti, G., He, S., Weisberg, R., Androulidakis, Y., Barker, C., Bracco, A., Dzwonkowski, B., Hu, C., Huang, H., Jacobs, G., Le Hénaff, M., Liu, Y., Morey, S., Nittrouer, J., Overton, E., Paris, C. B., Roberts, B. J., . . . Wiggert, J. (2022). Transport Processes in the Gulf of Mexico Along the River-Estuary-Shelf-Ocean Continuum: a Review of Research from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Estuaries and Coasts, 45(3), 621-657.

2020

Boufadel, M. C., Socolofsky, S., Katz, J., Yang, D., Daskiran, C., & Dewar, W. (2020). A Review on Multiphase Underwater Jets and Plumes: Droplets, Hydrodynamics, and Chemistry. Reviews of Geophysics, 58(3).
Bracco, A., Paris, C. B., Esbaugh, A. J., Frasier, K., Joye, S. B., Liu, G., Polzin, K. L., & Vaz, A. C. (2020). Transport, Fate and Impacts of the Deep Plume of Petroleum Hydrocarbons Formed During the Macondo Blowout. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7.
D'Asaro, E. A., Carlson, D. F., Chamecki, M., Harcourt, R. R., Haus, B. K., Fox-Kemper, B., Molemaker, M. J., Poje, A. C., & Yang, D. (2020). Advances in Observing and Understanding Small-Scale Open Ocean Circulation During the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Era. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7.

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