Multimedia fate modeling of oil spills in ice-infested waters: An exploration of the feasibility of fugacity-based approach

Modeling oil weathering and transport in sea ice

“…The MPMA considers the effects of linkages and the interdependences of relevant processes to a particular oil spill scenario. The success of both approaches is dependent on the availability of algorithms describing the processes of interest (Sebastiāo and Soares, 1995;Yang et al, 2015). SPMA is useful when the goal of the study is to evaluate the effect of individual parameters involved in the description of a particular weathering or transport process (Gjøsteen and Løset, 2004).…”

“…This approach considers the effect of linkages and dependencies between weathering After Afenyo et al (2015) and Drozdowski et al (2011). and transport processes. The algorithms adopted for the current work are based on studies conducted by Sebastiāo and Soares (1995); Mishra and Kumar (2015); Janeiro et al (2008) and Yang et al (2015).…”

“…(1) is transformed into Eq. (2) on the assumption that oil spreads in a thick continuous layer with a circular pattern (Yang et al, 2015;Sebastiāo and Soares, 1995).…”

“…C and D are constants with magnitudes of 6.3 and 10.3, respectively, as used in the Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills (ADIOS) model (Lehr et al, 2002), Janeiro et al (2008) and Yang et al (2015).…”

“…The algorithm most used by modelers was developed by Mackay et al (1980) and is shown as Eq. (13) (Yang et al, 2015). This has been used in OSCAR and ADIOS oil spill models (Gkonis et al, 2008).…”