The Prestige Oil Spill in Cantabria (Bay of Biscay). Part I: Operational Forecasting System for Quick Response, Risk Assessment, and Protection of Natural Resources

Castanedo, Sonia; Medina, Raúl; Losada, Íñigo J.; Vidal, C. R.; Méndez, Fernando J.; Osorio, Andrés F.; Juanes, José A.; Puente, Araceli

doi:10.2112/04-0364.1

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“…An example of calculation of Lagrangian trajectories using HFR data is shown in Figure 5. Recently, several dispersion models have been combined with weather and sea state observations to provide forecasting scenarios that can be crucial to minimize the efforts to be done to manage the emergency (Castanedo et al, 2006;Abascal et al, 2009). In particular, Abascal et al (2009) combined the HFR currents, as well as numerical wind data to simulate trajectories using the TESEO oil spill transport model.…”

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HF Radar Activity in European Coastal Seas: Next Steps toward a Pan-European HF Radar Network

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High Frequency Radar (HFR) is a land-based remote sensing instrument offering a unique insight to coastal ocean variability, by providing synoptic, high frequency and high resolution data at the ocean atmosphere interface. HFRs have become invaluable tools in the field of operational oceanography for measuring surface currents, waves and winds, with direct applications in different sectors and an unprecedented potential for the integrated management of the coastal zone. In Europe, the number of HFR networks has been showing a significant growth over the past 10 years, with over 50 HFRs currently deployed and a number in the planning stage. There is also a growing literature concerning the use of this technology in research and operational oceanography. A big effort is made in Europe toward a coordinated development of coastal HFR technology and its products within the framework of different European and international initiatives. One recent initiative has been to make an up-to-date inventory of the existing HFR operational systems in Europe, describing the characteristics of the systems, their operational products and applications. This paper offers a comprehensive review on the present status of European HFR network, and discusses the next steps toward the integration of HFR platforms as operational components of the European Ocean Observing System, designed to align and integrate Europe's ocean observing capacity for a truly integrated end-to-end observing system for the European coasts.

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HF Radar Activity in European Coastal Seas: Next Steps toward a Pan-European HF Radar Network

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“…The wind plus sea velocity field V(x, t) = (V 1 (x, t), V 2 (x, t)) = s(x, t) + w(x, t), expressed in m s −1 , is inspired from observations provided by [1,7]. It is defined by…”

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Nonlinear Advection–Diffusion–Reaction Phenomena Involved in the Evolution and Pumping of Oil in Open Sea: Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Validation Considering the Prestige and Oleg Naydenov Oil Spill Cases

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The main goal of this article is to improve upon a previous model used to simulate the evolution of oil spots in the open sea and the effect of a skimmer ship pumping oil out from the spots. The concentration of the pollutant is subject to the effects of wind and sea currents, diffusion, and the pumping action of a skimmer (i.e., cleaning) ship that follows a pre-assigned trajectory. This implies that the mathematical model is of the advectiondiffusion-reaction type. A drawback of our previous model was that diffusion was propagating with infinite velocity; in this article, we use an improved modeling relying on a nonlinear diffusion term, implying that diffusion propagates with finite velocity. To reduce numerical diffusion when approximating the advection part of the model, we consider second order discretization schemes with nonlinear flux limiters. We consider also absorbing boundary conditions to insure accurate results near the boundary. To reduce CPU time we use an operator-splitting scheme for the time discretization. Finally, we also introduce the modeling of coastlines and dynamic sources of pollutant. The novel approach we advocate in this article is validated by comparing our numerical results with real life measurements from the Oleg Naydenov and the Prestige oil spills, which took place in Spain in 2015 and 2002, respectively.

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“…Further examples of operational forecasting system for developing proper response strategies to oil spill emergencies were available during the Prestige oil spill crisis (Galicia coast, Spain, 2002) (Carracedo et al 2006;Castanedo et al 2006;Lermusiaux et al 2007). In the Mediterranean Sea, an oil-spill decision-support system was developed during the largest oil-release accident in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Lebanese oil-pollution crisis, which occurred in mid-July 2006 (Coppini et al 2011).…”

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“…Oil spill numerical modeling started in the early 80s and, according to state-of-the-art reviews (ASCE 1996;Reed et al 1999), a large number of numerical Lagrangian surface oil spill models have grown in the last 30 years. These models can vary from simple point source particle-tracking models, such as TESEO-PICHI (Castanedo et al 2006;Sotillo et al 2008), to complex models that attempt to comprehensively simulate the three-dimensional advectiondiffusion-transformations processes that oil undergoes (Wang et al 2008;Wang and Shen 2010). Some of the most sophisticated Lagrangian operational models are COZOIL (Reed et al 1989), SINTEF OSCAR 2000 (Reed et al 1995), OILMAP (Spaulding et al 1994;ASA 1997), GULFSPILL (Al-Rabeh et al 2000), ADIOS (Lehr et al 2002), MOTHY (Daniel et al 2003), MOHID (Carracedo et al 2006), the POSEIDON OSM (Pollani et al 2001Nittis et al 2006, OD3D (Hackett et al 2006), the Seatrack Web SMHI model (Ambjørn 2007), MEDSLIK (Lardner et al 1998, GNOME (Zelenke et al 2012), OILTRANS (Berry et al 2012), and MEDSLIK-II (De Dominicis et al 2013a).…”

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A relocatable ocean model in support of environmental emergencies

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During the Costa Concordia emergency case, regional, subregional, and relocatable ocean models have been used together with the oil spill model, MEDSLIK-II, to provide ocean currents forecasts, possible oil spill scenarios, and drifters trajectories simulations. The models results together with the evaluation of their performances are presented in this paper. In particular, we focused this work on the implementation of the Interactive RElo- Concordia emergency and on its validation using drifters released in the area of the accident. It is shown that thanks to the capability of improving easily and quickly its configuration, the IRENOM results are of greater accuracy than the results achieved using regional or subregional model products. The model topography, the initialization procedures, and the horizontal resolution are the key model settings to be configured. Furthermore, the IRENOM currents and the MEDSLIK-II simulated trajectories showed to be sensitive to the spatial resolution of the meteorological fields used, providing higher prediction skills with higher resolution wind forcing.

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The Prestige Oil Spill in Cantabria (Bay of Biscay). Part I: Operational Forecasting System for Quick Response, Risk Assessment, and Protection of Natural Resources

Cited by 80 publications

References 13 publications

HF Radar Activity in European Coastal Seas: Next Steps toward a Pan-European HF Radar Network

HF Radar Activity in European Coastal Seas: Next Steps toward a Pan-European HF Radar Network

Nonlinear Advection–Diffusion–Reaction Phenomena Involved in the Evolution and Pumping of Oil in Open Sea: Modeling, Numerical Simulation and Validation Considering the Prestige and Oleg Naydenov Oil Spill Cases

A relocatable ocean model in support of environmental emergencies

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