Abstract: A nearly continuous discharge of a brine solution was begun in March 1980 through a submerged multiport diffuser to the Gulf of Mexico at a nominal rate of 3.7 \times 10^{4} m^{3} /day. The brine discharge is the result of leaching and filling of storage caverns in the salt dome at the Bryan Mound site of the Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve Program. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the results of tracking the salinity plumes. The tracking procedure consists of towing a salinity sensor on the sea floor through the dif...
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Oceanography