Towards the development of an operational tool for oil spills management in the Algarve coast

Janeiro, João; Martins, Flávio; Relvas, Paulo

doi:10.1007/s11852-012-0201-8

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“…[1,9,21,33,57,59]). In this respect, the use of SKIRON model in a high resolution mode was an advantage for the presented study since SKIRON is a well-established model used and evaluated successfully in the past in various research, technical and operational works.…”

Section: Wave Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this respect, the use of SKIRON model in a high resolution mode was an advantage for the presented study since SKIRON is a well-established model used and evaluated successfully in the past in various research, technical and operational works. Trying to give a brief overview, we could refer the reader to studies covering the area of Mediterranean Sea with emphasis to wave applications [24,56,57,72,74], over the Atlantic Ocean for oil spill modeling [33], for the Adriatic Sea [17], the Aegean Sea [44] and, additionally, for air-quality applications [4,75], renewable energy [14,32,48,67], photochemical processes [70], and desert dust studies [6,41,53,66].…”

Section: Wave Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

et al. 2014

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a b s t r a c tThe main characteristics of wave energy potential over Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin, an area of increased interest for energy resources exploration/exploitation, is presented in this work. In particular, an integrated hindcasting platform consisting of state-of-the-art wind-wave numerical models at a very high resolution mode is utilized to produce a 10-year database for the wave energy potential in the Levantine Basin and the environmental parameters that affect it. The numerical results are analyzed by means of a variety of statistical measures focusing, apart from the conventional statistical information, on the potential impact of extreme values and the probability distribution functions that optimally describe the spatial and temporal distribution of the wave power potential over the Eastern Mediterranean sea area. The regions with increased values of wave energy potential are mainly the western and southern coastlines of Cyprus island, the sea area of Lebanon and Israel, as well as the coastline of Egypt especially around Alexandria. Over these areas, relatively low but also stable, and hence exploitable, wave energy potential is revealed. However, non-trivial impact of infrequent values is also recorded.

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Section: Wave Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Wave Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wave energy potential in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine Basin. An integrated 10-year study

et al. 2014

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“…1), this mesoscale variability is of paramount importance to human coastal activities occurring along a 450 km coastline. Among the activities, the maritime corridor passing between land and the Gorringe Ridge seamount, the Northwest area offshore of the Cape São Vicente, which concentrates shipping routes from the Mediterranean Sea and Southern Hemisphere to Northern Europe, is of special concern due to its high traffic of oil tankers (Janeiro et al 2012). Based on Automated Identification System (AIS) data, Silveira et al (2013) characterized the vessels traffic and studied the collision risk inside the Traffic Separation Schemes implemented off the coast of Portugal.…”

Section: Accepted Manuscriptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The local economy is closely linked to the sea, depending mainly from both tourism and fisheries (Janeiro et al 2012). Environmentally it encompasses several important natural parks, being the most important ones the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Natural Park of the Sudoeste Algarvio and Costa Vicentina.…”

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Integrating technologies for oil spill response in the SW Iberian coast

Janeiro

Neves

Martins

et al. 2017

Journal of Marine Systems

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An operational oil spill modelling system developed for the SW Iberia Coast is used to investigate the relative importance of the different components and technologies integrating an oil spill monitoring and response structure. A backtrack of a CleanSeaNet oil detection in the region is used to demonstrate the concept. Taking advantage of regional operational products available, the system provides the necessary resolution to go from regional to coastal scales using a downscalling approach, while a multi-grid methodology allows the based oil spill model to span across model domains taking full advantage of the increasing resolution between the model grids. An extensive validation procedure using a multiplicity of sensors, with good spatial and temporal coverage, strengthens the operational system ability to accurately solve coastal scale processes. The model is validated using available trajectories from satellite-tracked drifters. Finally, a methodology is proposed to identifying potential origins for the CleanSeaNet oil detection, by combining model backtrack results with ship trajectories supplied by AIS was developed, including the error estimations found in the backtrack validation.

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“…European operational models are being extended with the ability to predict the behavior and evolution of an oil spill in the marine environment and linking it to an online risk assessment/contingency response tool available for stakeholders (Janeiro et al 2012). Within the IONIO (Ionian integrated Marine Observatory, www.ionioproject.eu) project, in support of coastal management, a Pollution Hazard Mapping Decision Support System has been developed.…”

Section: Utility Of Coastal Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%