Rapid oil spill simulation within Ghana’s coastal waters

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 96, 2019 2018 6^th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP 2018)


Article Number		03002
Number of page(s)		8
Section		Marine Environmentology and Pollution Control
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20199603002
Published online		28 May 2019

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