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April 2011

A long view of Gulf oil spill

April 19th, 2011 Updated: October 13th, 2020

While others predicted when oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico might reach beaches, ocean modelers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Center for Atmospheric Research asked when gushing oil might exit the Gulf, where it would go and how diluted it’d be, up to a year later.

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Tracing CFCs and greenhouse gases

April 19th, 2011 Updated: November 30th, 2011

National Center for Atmospheric Research oceanographer Synte Peacock studies β€œthe distribution of various tracers – something that tags a water mass and is carried around by ocean currents – to learn more about ocean circulation in the past and present.” These tracers include carbon and radiocarbon isotopes, paleotracers (fossils from the sea, in sediments and […]

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