Connectivity Modeling System simulation of the Macondo Well Blowout evolution April through October 2010: The effects of circulation and synthetic dispersants on subsea oil transport

This dataset contains the output of the Connectivity Modeling System (CMS) simulation of the Macondo Well blowout. One thousand particles distributed in three fractions corresponding to 574 Å~ 103 kg of oil are released every 2 h from April 20 to July 15 for a total of more than 1 million particles, at a single source point (28.736° N, 88.365° W) located 300 m above the wellhead, the estimated mean trap height of oil droplets representing the major intrusion. The CMS produced daily outputs of 8 variables in ASCII format. This includes each particle's: age, density, distance traveled, longitude, latitude, depth, size and status within the model. More information about the dataset parameters can be found in Supplemental Information section of the dataset metadata record. For further details about the dataset please refer to Paris, C. B., Henaff, M., Aman, Z. M., Subramanian, A., Helgers, J., Wang, D. P., Kourafalou, V. H., Srinivasan, A. 2012. "Evolution of the Macondo Well Blowout: Simulating the Effects of the Circulation and Synthetic Dispersants on the Subsea Oil Transport." Environmental Science and Technology 46: 13293–13302. doi: 10.1021/es303197h In addition, this dataset is closely related to C-IMAGE dataset R1.x135.117:0003 titled “Connectivity Modeling System simulation of the Macondo Well Blowout evolution April through October 2010: The effects of circulation and wind-induced drift on subsea oil transport” (https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R1.x135.117:0003); with the differences being in the number of fractionations of hydrocarbons (8 for dataset R1.x135.117:000 and 3 for R1.x135.117:0003) and the wind-forcing scenarios used in the simulations. With the wind forcing in dataset R1.x135.117:0003, the surface slicks of oil are moved using a Stokes drift equation. Therefore the top 0-20 meters are also different.