Relative abundance of 'Bacillus' spp., surfactant-associated bacterium present in a natural sea slick observed by satellite SAR imagery over the Gulf of Mexico

Relative abundance of 'Bacillus' spp., surfactant-associated bacterium present in a natural sea slick observed by satellite SAR imagery over the Gulf of Mexico

The damping of short gravity-capillary waves (Bragg waves) due to surfactant accumulation under low wind speed conditions results in the formation of natural sea slicks. These slicks are detectable visually and in synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery. Surfactants are produced by natural life p...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Lynn Howe, Cayla Whitney Dean, John Kluge, Alexander Victor Soloviev, Aurelien Tartar, Mahmood Shivji, Susanne Lehner, William Perrie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioOne 2018-01-01
Series:Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene
Subjects:
microlayer
surfactant
bacteria
SAR
Online Access:https://www.elementascience.org/articles/268

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