Near Field Plume simulation results for Deepwater Horizon blowout Hindcast in Gulf of Mexico from 2010-04-22 to 2010-07-14 using the Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator (TAMOC).

The data set is developed as a part of the simulations that carried out for the Hindcast of Deepwater Horizon oilspill from 2010-04-22 to 2010-07-14 in the Gulf of Mexico. Two main sets of model simulation results included in the data are from the two near-field plume models in the Texas A&M Oilspill Calculator (TAMOC) that can be used to simulate under water oil and gas blowout plumes, namely the Stratified Plume Model (SPM) and the Bent Plume Model (BPM). Stratified plume model does not account for the cross flow velocities in the ambient while the bent plume model does consider the presence of cross currents in the calculations. Simulations are done hourly from 2010-04-22 to 2010-07-14. Model input data are saved in “Input” folder in netcdf and .csv formats, and model results are saved in “Output” folder in netcdf format. The tools for reading and post processing of model results are included in the TAMOC modeling suite, which can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/socolofs/tamoc. Release fluid composition and parameters needed as input to the model are saved in the .csv files according to the format needed in the TAMOC modeling suite to read the data. Ambient data used are extracted from SABGOM ocean circulation model simulations for the Gulf of Mexico and saved in the folder Input/SABGOM according to the format used as input to TAMOC. Each ambient data file is corresponding to each hour of simulation starting from 2010-04-22, 00th hour (SABGOM_4778611200.0) to 2010-07-14, 23rd hour (SABGOM_4778611200.0). The model results of SPM are saved as “SPM_DWH_M_D_H_Loc_disp.nc” and for BPM it is “BPM_DWH_M_D_H_loc_disp.nc” where M- Month, D – Day, H – Hour, Loc - Location (Loc = 1 – Plume leaked at the kink before the riser cut off on 2010-06-03, Loc = 2 – Plume at the end of the fallen riser, Loc = 3 – Plume at the well head after the riser cut off on 2010-06-03) and if disp = 1 Plume is treated with dispersant and if disp = 0 plume is not treated with dispersants.