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An oil recovery vessel flares gases during the summer 2010 oil spill

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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.

NOAA Affiliation

UC Santa Barbara