Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 64, Issue 11, Pages 2489-2501Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.07.036
Keywords
Oil spill model; Oil weathering; Particle transport; Celtic Sea; Kuznetsov
Funding
- ARCOPOL - The Atlantic Regions' Coastal Pollution Response Project [2008-1/061]
- Atlantic Area Trans-National Programme
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
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This paper describes details of an oil spill model, OILTRANS, developed by the authors. The model is an off-line particle-transport model coupled to the most up to date operational met-ocean model forecasts. Formulations for the dominant oil fate processes of spreading, advection, diffusion, evaporation, emulsification and dispersion have been encoded, providing the model with the ability to accurately predict the horizontal movement of surface oil slick, the vertical entrainment of oil into the water column and the mass balance of spilled oil. The application of the OILTRANS model to an accidental release during a ship-to-ship fuel transfer in the Celtic Sea in February 2009 is presented to validate the system. Comparisons with aerial observations of the oil slick at the time of the incident, and subsequent model simulations, indicate that the OILTRANS model is capable of accurately predicting the transport and fate of the oil slick. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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