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

doi:10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323394

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

Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences

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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 language	American English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323394
State	Published - Feb 17 2021
Event	IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - Waikoloa, HI, USA, Waikoloa, United States Duration: Sep 26 2020 → Oct 2 2020 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9323073/proceeding

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Conference	IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
Country/Territory	United States
City	Waikoloa
Period	9/26/20 → 10/2/20
Internet address	https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9323073/proceeding

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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Soloviev, A., Vanderplow, B. L., Dean, C., Schwarz, E., Lehner, S., Shen, H., Perrie, W., & Schuler, P. (2021). High-Resolution Remote Sensing, In-Situ Observations, and Modeling of Low-Salinity Lenses in the Presence of Oil Slick. Paper presented at IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323394

High-Resolution Remote Sensing, In-Situ Observations, and Modeling of Low-Salinity Lenses in the Presence of Oil Slick. / Soloviev, Alexander; Vanderplow, Breanna L; Dean, Cayla et al.
2021. Paper presented at IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States.

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Soloviev, A, Vanderplow, BL, Dean, C, Schwarz, E, Lehner, S, Shen, H, Perrie, W & Schuler, P 2021, 'High-Resolution Remote Sensing, In-Situ Observations, and Modeling of Low-Salinity Lenses in the Presence of Oil Slick', Paper presented at IGARSS 2020 - 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Waikoloa, United States, 9/26/20 - 10/2/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS39084.2020.9323394

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