Improving weather today allowed both NOAA overflights and dispersant operations to resume. Today, four aircraft applied dispersants to the surface slick, and dispersant application by vessels is expected to begin tomorrow. Monitoring of the dispersant efforts are ongoing. NOAA overflights were conducted over the source as well as south from Mobile. At present, technical specialists […]
Today’s MODIS / Aqua image features a break in the clouds (just barely) to reveal much of the oil slick. Fresh upwelling oil is apparent around the location of the leaking well. Long tendrils of slick and sheen stretch to the east and southwest; the total area of slicks and sheen, possibly including patches of […]
By Hubert Tate, Photojournalist: Franz Barraza Published : Tuesday, 04 May 2010, 6:18 PM CDT ORANGE BEACH, Alabama (WALA) – Another set of booms could be placed in areas where the original set of booms failed. The beach front near Perdido Pass is one area where the booms have failed. And failure is not a […]
By Press-Register staffMay 04, 2010, 10:38AM MOBILE, Ala. — The latest forecast track from government experts shows the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon site still well offshore of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida Panhandle by Thursday evening at 6 p.m. The map, prepared Monday at 11 p.m., uses information from overflights, wind data and […]
It’s been two weeks since the blowout and explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon. Here are some photos that have emerged recently, showing the scale of the disaster. Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,North America,Gulf of Mexico,pollution
This is a map of the magnitude of the horizontal velocity of the seawater at the indicated depth. Units are meters per second. RTOFS (Atlantic) is a basin-scale ocean forecast system based on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). RTOFS (Atlantic) is described in the following paper (PDF): “A Real Time Ocean Forecast System for […]
By MARY PEREZ – meperez@sunherald.com GULFPORT — Long ribbons of oil from the Deepwater spill now wind through the Chandeleur Islands between 35 miles and 55 miles south of Gulfport. On a 90-minute flight from Apollo Aviation in Gulfport Monday afternoon, reporters and photographers from the Sun Herald, New York Times and Los Angles Times […]
The map sequence shows how the oil spill has been spreading in the Gulf of Mexico. Each day’s outline reflects the most current estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the extent of the spill on that day. By The New York Times. Sources: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard Tracking […]
By Dan Swenson, The Times-PicayuneMay 02, 2010, 11:49AM This animation of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was created using actual overflight information and forecast models from the NOAA and Unified Command. The red dot is the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil well, which exploded on April 20, releasing oil into the Gulf near […]
By MELISSA NELSON (AP) MOBILE, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Bob Riley says most of the inflatable booms deployed to catch the oil spill are breaking down, forcing crews to rework their contingency plan. Riley said Sunday that 80 percent of the thousands of feet of booms the Coast Guard and other crews have laid […]
