Fluorescence-estimated oil concentration (F_oil) in the Deepwater Horizon subsea oil plume.

ABSTRACT: Tracking the subsea oil plume during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (DWH) was conducted using in situ fluorescence via vertical profilers (n = 1157) and discrete sample chemical analyses (n = 7665). During monitoring efforts, discrete samples provided a coarse picture of the oil plume footprint, but the majority of the samples were below standard analytical detection limits for petroleum hydrocarbons. In situ fluorescence data improved the spatial and temporal resolution of the subsea oil plume characterization. Here we synthesized millions of continuous fluorescence data points from hundreds of contemporaneously discrete samples collected to demonstrate how fluorescence could serve as a proxy for Benzene-Toluene-Ethylbenzene-Xylene (BTEX) concentration. Data mined from Gulf Science

SUBMITTER: Conmy RN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972361 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature