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re: Oil Spill and Offshore Fishing (Latest Developments)
Posted on 5/1/10 at 4:55 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Posted on 5/1/10 at 4:55 pm to Ponchy Tiger
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SkyTruth is now estimating that Exxon Valdez has been surpassed... calculating a spill volume of 26000 bbl/day based on April 28's overflight map
I would take this with a grain of salt. The overflight map doesn't really tell you that much.
The oil on the surface will continue to spread, it is wind and current driven. However size is not important, it is density on the surface and whether the sheen is a light skimming or actual thick sludge.
Its bad, but I don't know how much you can really tell from a satellite as far as the amount of oil. Just determines the size of the footprint
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Posted on 5/1/10 at 5:13 pm to ItTakesAThief
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The oil on the surface will continue to spread, it is wind and current driven. However size is not important, it is density on the surface and whether the sheen is a light skimming or actual thick sludge.
Its bad, but I don't know how much you can really tell from a satellite as far as the amount of oil.
they show their work and use the USCG's assessment of oil thickness based on visibility. That's more than BP showed with their "oh, it's 5000" that they said on Thursday morning.
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