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- Title
Usefulness of high resolution coastal models for operational oil spill forecast: the Full City accident.
- Authors
Broström, G.; Carrasco, A.; Hole, L. R.; Dick, S.; Janssen, F.; Mattsson, J.; Berger, S.
- Abstract
Oil spill modeling is considered to be an important decision support system (DeSS) useful for remedial action in case of accidents, as well as for designing the environmental monitoring system that is frequently set up after major accidents. Many accidents take place in coastal areas implying that low resolution basin scale ocean models is of limited use for predicting the trajectories of an oil spill. In this study, we target the oil spill in connection with the Full City accident on the Norwegian south coast and compare three different oil spill models for the area. The result of the analysis is that all models do a satisfactory job. The "standard" operational model for the area is shown to have severe flaws but including an analysis based on a higher resolution model (1.5km resolution) for the area the model system show results that compare well with observations. The study also shows that an ensemble using three different models is useful when predicting/analyzing oil spill in coastal areas.
- Subjects
NORWAY; MODELS &; modelmaking; OIL spills; DECISION support systems; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring
- Publication
Ocean Science Discussions, 2011, Vol 8, Issue 3, p1469
- ISSN
1812-0806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/osd-8-1467-2011