A High Resolution Operational Oil Spill Model at Santander Bay (Spain): Implementation and Validation

Abstract

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Modes of Operation and Forcing in Oil Spill Modeling: State-of-Art, Deficiencies and Challenges

“…The Spanish Met Office, AEMET (Spanish State Meteorological Agency) (https:// www.aemet.es/es/portada, accessed on 5 February 2023), produces meteorological forcing forecasts using the HIRLAM (High Resolution Limited Area Model) [107,108]. This forecasting system runs with a horizontal resolution at 1/7 • (~15 km) over the whole Western Mediterranean, providing hourly data every 6 h for the next 72-h (Table 1) [109]. HIRLAM has been coupled to the oil spill model TESEO and has been applied in the Prestige oil-spill accidental release in the Bay of Biscay [109,110].…”

“…This forecasting system runs with a horizontal resolution at 1/7 • (~15 km) over the whole Western Mediterranean, providing hourly data every 6 h for the next 72-h (Table 1) [109]. HIRLAM has been coupled to the oil spill model TESEO and has been applied in the Prestige oil-spill accidental release in the Bay of Biscay [109,110]. Météo-France contributes with atmospheric data through the ARPEGE model (Action de Recherche Petite Echelle Grande Echelle) for the entire Mediterranean basin (http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/spip.php?article121&lang=en, accessed on 7 February 2023).…”

Operational oil spill trajectory modelling using HF radar currents: A northwest European continental shelf case study

“…The weathering module includes the process of slick spreading under gravity and viscous forces (Fay, 1971), the evaporation from the slick of the lighter components of the spilled oil (Stiver and MacKay, 1984), the entrainment of water into the oil slick forming emulsions (MacKay et al, 1980) and the change of physicochemical properties. Both components of the model, the transport and the weathering module, have been validated in previous studies (Abascal et al, 2007(Abascal et al, , 2009Castanedo et al, 2014). This paper focuses on the analysis and validation of the oil spill trajectory forecasting capability only and does not make use of the backtracking and weathering modules of the system.…”