Risk maps for oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Basin

Risk maps for oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Basin

IV Congress of Marine Sciences, Encuentro de la Oceanografía Física Española (EOF 2014), 11-13 June 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.-- 1 page

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Main Authors: Jiménez Madrid, J.A., García-Olivares, Antonio, García-Ladona, Emilio
Format: comunicación de congreso biblioteca
Published: 2014-06-12
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/116684
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spelling dig-icm-es-10261-1166842020-12-09T13:09:24Z Risk maps for oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Basin Jiménez Madrid, J.A. García-Olivares, Antonio García-Ladona, Emilio IV Congress of Marine Sciences, Encuentro de la Oceanografía Física Española (EOF 2014), 11-13 June 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.-- 1 page In case of an oil spill accident the most pressing issue is to know whether the oil slick will reach any shoreline in the days following the spill. Oil spill forecasting models are state of art tools to answer this question and some of them have been compiled in a single tool by the MEDESS-4MS project. However, the prediction horizon of forecasting models is about 5-7 days, because this is the prediction horizon of meteorological data. If the 7-days forecast obtained from those models does not take the slick to any shoreline, it is difficult to foreseen which are the most exposed coastal segments in the long term (1 month to 1 year), as past accidents (i.e., Prestige, Deepwater Horizon) have shown. In this situation the initial condition forecast does not help authorities to take a fast response, such as to bring or not the ship to a refuge port. To assess the authorities and decision makers to select an efficient response, it is important to have statistical information of the coastal segments that are most exposed (in the scale of months) to spills coming from different sea positions. In this work a Lagrangian model for the evolution of oil slicks is proposed and illustrated with some cases in the Mediterranean Basin. The Lagrangian model makes use of data for the sea surface velocities and wind stresses coming from NEMO (1/12º, daily) climatological runs covering a time period ranging from October 1998 to November 2007. A set of coastal risk maps are generated, with frequency of beaching on the Mediterranean coast for oil spills taking place at selected points along main tankers paths and at marine oil and gas platforms. These risk maps will complement the short-term (up to a week) forecasting made with the models included in whichever oil spill system, and they together will constitute a tool able to improve the management of emergency situations Peer Reviewed 2015-06-17T06:57:59Z 2015-06-17T06:57:59Z 2014-06-12 2015-06-17T06:58:00Z comunicación de congreso http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 isbn: 978-84-697-0471-4 Book of Abstracts submitted to the IV Congress of Marine Sciences. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, June 11th to 13th: 150 (2014) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/116684 none
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description IV Congress of Marine Sciences, Encuentro de la Oceanografía Física Española (EOF 2014), 11-13 June 2014, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.-- 1 page
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author Jiménez Madrid, J.A.
García-Olivares, Antonio
García-Ladona, Emilio
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García-Olivares, Antonio
García-Ladona, Emilio
Risk maps for oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Basin
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title_short Risk maps for oil spill accidents in the Mediterranean Basin
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