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Figure 3

From: Extracting quasi-steady Lagrangian transport patterns from the ocean circulation: An application to the Gulf of Mexico

Figure 3

Climatological LCSs colored according to their climatological attraction strength lncρ for (a) May and (b) July in the northern GoM. Superimposed in (a) is the oil outline (black) from the Deepwater Horizon spill as seen on May 17, 2010; the Macondo well location (magenta square) is also shown. In (b), black dots are the daily positions of GLAD drifters from July 29 to August 2, 2012. Created with Matlab R2016B (www.mathworks.com).

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