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How to measure the oil spill / David Valentine

Sumario: As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion the question remains: how big an environmental disaster is this? Observing the surface slick and the deep-sea leak are of limited use in this situation. A more effective approach might be to quantify the leaked methane gas dissolved in the water - something that hasn't been done before to assess the size of a spill, researchers are already measuring methane in some gulf water samples, a larger-scale project is urgently required to map the methane plumes in real time

En: Nature. - London : Nature Publishing Group, 2010 = ISSN 0028-0836. - 26/05/2010 Volumen 465 Número 7298 - 2010 , [1] p.

1. Accidentes mayores . 2. Accidentes industriales . 3. Refinerías . 4. Derrames . 5. Explosiones industriales . 6. Explosiones químicas . 7. Impacto ambiental . 8. Contaminación marina . 9. Golfo de México . I. Título.