U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1234
Application of a Hydrodynamic and Sediment Transport Model for Guidance of Response Efforts Related to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Along the Coast of Alabama and Florida
Title Page | Contents | List of Figures | List of Tables | Conversion Factors | Abbreviations | Executive Summary | Introduction | Methods | Results | Digital Data Files | Discussion | Summary and Conclusions | References Cited | Appendix 1. Scenarios | Appendix 2. Example Model Input Files | Appendix 3. Calculations of Mobility and Potential Flux | Appendix 4. File Naming Conventions | Appendix 5. Time Step of Maximum Ebb and Flood for Inlets in the Model Domain
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| Figure 22. Mobility ratio (table 2, metric 5) in the northern Gulf of Mexico alongshore Alabama and Florida for a midlevel threshold of 2.5-centimeter surface residual balls (SRBs; table 1) for scenarios A, H3_D6 and B, H4_D6 (fig. 2). Areas with a mobility ratio of 1 (in pink) indicate where the mobility threshold was exceeded. Whereas the mobility threshold is exceeded only in small sections in very shallow water in A, the large wave heights result in mobility along the coast as well as over shallow bar and ebb tidal delta features in B. | ||
