Importance of Vertical Mixing for Modeling the Horizontal Drift of Oil Spills: Simulations with the Open Source Oil Spill Model OpenOil

Dagestad, Knut-Frode

Importance of Vertical Mixing for Modeling the Horizontal Drift of Oil Spills: Simulations with the Open Source Oil Spill Model OpenOil

Knut-Frode Dagestad¹, Johannes Röhrs², Lars Robert Hole¹, Tor Nordam³ and Jørgen Skancke⁴, (1)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Bergen, Norway, (2)Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway, (3)SINTEF Ocean, Trondheim, Norway, (4)SINTEF Materials and Chemistry, Environmental Technology, Trondheim, Norway