28 May 2010
Posted by Dan Satterfield
I have had a TON of questions about the impact of a Gulf hurricane on the oil slick. The short answer to this is nobody really knows. NOAA has a short document out that covers the questions and what little IS known.
Good science here:
Click for the pdf.
More soon…
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.
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I just hope they are able to clean as much of it up as possible. Still, they won’t be able to get all of it. What a tragedy!