Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 67, Issue 1-2, Pages 121-129Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.11.025
Keywords
Pollution control; Maritime pollution; Marine Protected Areas; Lagrangian transport; Baltic Sea; Gulf of Finland
Funding
- Estonian Ministry of Education and Research [SF0140007s11]
- European Union through the Mobilitas project [MTT63]
- European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence for Non-linear Studies CENS)
- Estonian Science Foundation [9125]
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The possibility of current-driven propagation of contaminants released along a major fairway polluting the Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea, is examined using a 3D circulation model, a Lagrangian transport model and statistics. Not surprisingly, the number of hits to the MPA decreases almost linearly with its distance from the fairway. In addition, the potential pollution released during a ship accident with the pollutants carried by currents may affect MPAs at very large distances. Typically, a fairway section approximately 125 km long (covering about 1/3 of the approximate 400-km-long gulf) may serve as a source of pollution for each MPA. The largest MPA (in the Eastern Gulf of Finland) may receive pollution from an approximately 210-km-long section (covering about 1/2 of the entire length of the gulf). This information may be useful in assisting maritime management. (c) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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