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Description
An oil recovery vessel flares gases during the summer 2010 oil spill. NOAAresearchers and colleagues used atmospheric measurements during the spill toderive independent estimates of the recovery rate, oil spill rate and the fateof the spilled gases and oil.
Credit
NOAA News 031411
Photographer
David Valentine
Location
Gulf of Mexico, Deepwater Horizon spill site.
Collection
America's Coastlines
NOAA Affiliation
UC Santa Barbara