BP Oil Well Will Be Capped By Monday

... Or not .

And if not, and if this keeps going for, say, a total of one year, this is what we can expect:

That animation is from the University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa.

The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Eight million buoyant particles were released continuously from April 20 to September 17, 2010, at the location of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. The release occurred in ocean flow data from simulations conducted with the high-resolution Ocean General Circulation Model for the Earth Simulator (OFES). "The paths of the particles were calculated in 8 typical OFES years over 360 days from the beginning of the spill," says Fabian Schloesser, a PhD student from the Department of Oceanography in SOEST, who worked on these simulations with Axel Timmermann and Oliver Elison Timm from the International Pacific Research Center (IPRC), also in SOEST. "From these 8 typical years, 5 were selected to create an animation for which the calculated extent of the spill best matches current observational estimates."

Read the rest here.

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As I understand the simulation, they assumed the spill would continue from April to September rather than a full year. The effects of the oil from the 5 month release of oil would eventually be dispersed along the eastern seaboard and Atlantic over the course of a year. September is actually a fairly realistic estimate when the well will be capped using the two relief wells. The chances they will cap the well today is about as high as the likelihood BP will go a day without making deceptive claims and telling outright lies.

Dave, thanks for the clarification, I believe you are correct. And, of course, what this means (as you say) is that the scenario depicted here ia not especially unlikely.

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