As oil reserves in established basins become depleted, exploration and production moves towards relatively unexploited areas, such as deep waters off the continental shelf. The Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC, NE Atlantic) and adjacent areas have been subject to increased focus by the oil industry. In addition to extreme depths, metocean conditions in this region characterise an environment with high waves and strong winds, strong currents, complex circulation patterns, sharp density gradients, and large small- and mesoscale variability. These conditions pose operational challenges to oil spill response and question the suitability of current oil spill modelling frameworks (oil spill models and their forcing data) to adequately simulate the behaviour of a potential oil spill in the area. This article reviews the state of knowledge relevant to deepwater oil spill modelling for the FSC area and identifies knowledge gaps and research priorities. Our analysis should be relevant to other areas of complex oceanography.
IrEB. 23, T9241 CORRESPONDENCE. [ MIOBRm 351 Oflorrtponbuc THE BRACKENBURY TESTIMONIAL. SIR'-There has been a very widely expressed desire that the eminent services of Dr. H. B. Brackenbury to the medical profession should be recognized, having regard particularly to his recent most useful and brilliant work in preparing and presenting the case of the insuranice practitioner before the Court of Inquiry. Steps are already beinig taken to approach insurance practitioners through their Panel Committees, as it is thought that insurance practitioners as such would desire to have a special opportunity of expressing their gratitude. But our correspondence and conversations with many colleagues show that numerous doctors having no connexion with insurance practice would be glad of an opportunity of showing their belief that Dr. Brackenbury's services for many years past have been of great value to the profession as a whole. They consider that Dr. Brackenbury's recent advocacy and conduct of the case of the insurance practitioner have been such as to enhance very considerably the reputation, influence, and prestige of the medical-profession. A large and influential committee is now being formed, and an opportunity will shortly be given to those who wish
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