Advances in Science: How Deepwater Horizon Helped Improve NOAA’s Oil Spill Modeling
When the Deepwater Horizon well blowout happened in 2010, OR&R specialists used their workhorse oil spill trajectory model, GNOME—first developed in the late 90s—to estimate where the oil from the gushing wellhead would end up.
![A diagram of an oil spill.](https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/surface-oiling-pathways%20%281%29.jpg)
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