Estimating oil spill characteristics from oil heads in scattered monitoring wells.
The results are presented of a comparison of four different methods of interpolating observed hydrocarbon depths in monitoring wells, as well as a comparison of different methods of selecting sampling points for interpolation. The results provide criteria for selecting one interpolation method over another, under different scenarios. The methods analyzed are: (1) inverse-distance weighting; (2) punctual kriging; (3) minimum surface curvature; and (4) Akima's quintic polynomial.
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Virginia Tech, 24061-0303, Blacksburg, VA, USA.
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