A framework to quantify uncertainty in simulations of oil transport in the ocean

This research was made possible in part by a grant from BP/The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to the Deep-C and CARTHE Consortia, by the Office of Naval Research, award N00014-101-0498, and by the US Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management under the cooperative agreement MC12AC00019. R. Goncalves acknowledges support by the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (CNPq-Council for Scientific and Technological Development) through a PHD scholarship from the Science Without Borders program, grant 202263/2012-6. O. Knio acknowledges partial support from the US Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, under award DE-SC0008789. This research was conducted in collaboration with and using the resources of the University of Miami Center for Computational Science. The outputs of the DeepC Oil Model used here are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC). [Available at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org/data/R1.x138.077:0026.]