The impact of weather and ocean forecasting on hydrocarbon production and pollution management in the Gulf of Mexico

Kaiser, Mark J.; Pulsipher, Allan G.

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2006.01.026

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“…Most multi-authored papers are those that cover a large research topic or inter-disciplinary problems of research, such as light train transit systems [92], integrated water resource management [93,94], forests and timber harvesting [95], and different pollution patterns [96]. Some of those papers are written by authors from the same country [97] and some in collaboration with other countries [98]. The papers written by one or two authors handle much focused research problems, such as technical engineering issues [99], risk management, construction monitoring and decision support system (DSS) [100], e-procurement [101], infrastructure risk assessment [102], housing [103], and contractor selection [104].…”

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Decision Support Systems in Construction: A Bibliometric Analysis

Minhas

Potdar

2020

Buildings

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In recent years, the use of decision support systems for selecting sustainable construction materials in the building and commercial construction projects has received a great deal of attention. This paper reports an in-depth and systematic bibliometric analysis of the literature using Decision Support Systems (DSSs) for its construction, based on the papers published during the period from 2000 to 2016. The data were collected from two major databases, Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, which included 2185 and 3233 peer reviewed articles, respectively. The analysis includes a general bibliometric analysis (publications output, country-wise research output, authorship, and collaboration patterns of these published articles). It also includes a citation analysis (keywords, most cited keywords, organizations, most cited articles, and average citations per article) and a network analysis (authors and countries). Overall, this study provides bibliometric insights and future research directions for researchers and practitioners who use DSSs.

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Decision Support Systems in Construction: A Bibliometric Analysis

Minhas

Potdar

2020

Buildings

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“…The environmental damage was so extensive the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said that it was the largest disaster the agency had ever confronted (Nwazota 2005). Combined, Katrina and Rita accounted for 361 crude oil releases from offshore facilities and pipelines (Kaiser and Pulsipher 2007). The hurricanes also caused numerous, large on-land spills; Katrina produced the largest single site on-land oil spill in U.S. history to date (Steinberg, Sengul, and Cruz 2008).…”

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“…The hurricanes also caused numerous, large on-land spills; Katrina produced the largest single site on-land oil spill in U.S. history to date (Steinberg, Sengul, and Cruz 2008). These storms destroyed 109 end-of-life oil facilities and 46 platforms, and damaged 20 platforms, 70 oil-carrying ships, and 130 pipelines (Kaiser and Pulsipher 2007;Pine 2006). While there are conflicting reports, official estimates by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) estimate the total oil released into navigable waterways by the hurricanes at roughly 8 million gallons (NOAA 2011).…”

Section: Hurricane Katrinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Size Doesn't Matter: The Complicated Relationship between national offshore Oil Spill Events, Framing, and Policy

Greer

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2016

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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Understanding issue framing in the context of offshore spills is important because it shapes how media, the public, interest groups, and politicians define failure and propose acceptable solutions that, through agenda setting, become policy. This paper explores the complex relationship between agenda setting, framing, and attention garnered by U.S. offshore oil spill events and resulting federal policy. To examine this important issue, this study considers nine major offshore oil spills in U.S. waters, exploring the attention paid to each spill and any resulting policy changes. Analysis of these past spills suggests that the size of offshore oil spills is not indicative of the amount of media and policy attention that an event will trigger. In contrast, framing is an important element of the reaction to these rare maritime disasters. While spills in U.S. waters large enough for inclusion in this study were limited, results support previous findings that suggest that location is one of the most important factors in this complicated relationship.

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“…Characterizing and predicting the state of the LC has important implications, as it affects all ranges of oceanrelated processes in the GoM, from larval connectivity to pollution transport or oil platform operations (e.g. Lara-Hernańdez et al, 2019;Le Heńaff et al, 2012a;Kaiser and Pulsipher, 2007). This led the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to implement the Understanding Gulf Ocean Systems (UGOS) initiative as part of its Gulf Research Program, to support research related to ocean observations and modeling in the GoM to improve the understanding and forecasting of the LC dynamics.…”

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Influence of the Caribbean Sea eddy field on Loop Current predictions

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Previous studies have shown how the passage of eddies from the Caribbean Sea (CS) to the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) can impact the Loop Current (LC) system, in particular the detachments of LC Eddies (LCEs). Here we used numerical modeling to investigate the impact of the eddy field in the CS on LC predictions. We used a HYCOM ocean model configuration of the North Atlantic at 1/12° resolution to perform two data-assimilative experiments: one in which all available observations were assimilated (Ref), and one in which all available observations were assimilated except in the CS, where climatological altimetry values were assimilated instead of actual observations, leading to dampening the mesoscale activity there (NoCarib). These experiments took place in 2015, when the LC was very active with several LCE detachments, re-attachments, and separations. Each of these experiments was used to initialize 28 60-day forecast simulations every 10 days. In terms of model Sea Surface Height (SSH), the forecasts initialized with the Ref experiment had, on average, lower errors than the forecasts initialized with the NoCarib experiment in the southeastern part of the GoM, with a peak during the 31-40 day forecast period. More importantly, the errors in predicting the date of the next LCE detachment or separation were smaller in the forecasts initialized from the more realistic Ref experiment. Finally, the forecasts initialized by the NoCarib experiment showed a much higher level of false negatives predictions, meaning that no LCE detachment was predicted whereas a detachment actually happened. Overall, 68% of LCE detachments were predicted with an error smaller than 15 days in the forecasts initialized from the more realistic Ref experiment, but only 32% in the forecasts initialized from the NoCarib experiment, stressing the importance of the CS eddy field for predicting the LC evolution. These findings have implications on the GoM predictability, highlighting the need to either run data-assimilative models covering both the GoM and the CS, or pay particular attention to accurate boundary conditions for limited-area GoM models.

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The impact of weather and ocean forecasting on hydrocarbon production and pollution management in the Gulf of Mexico

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

Decision Support Systems in Construction: A Bibliometric Analysis

Decision Support Systems in Construction: A Bibliometric Analysis

Size Doesn't Matter: The Complicated Relationship between national offshore Oil Spill Events, Framing, and Policy

Influence of the Caribbean Sea eddy field on Loop Current predictions

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