Tracking the <i>Prestige</i> oil spill: An operational experience in simulation at MeteoGalicia

Balseiro, C. F.; Carracedo, Pablo; Gómez, Breogán; Leitão, Paulo C.; Montero, Pedro; Naranjo, Luís María Ceballos; Penabad, E.; Pérez‐Muñuzuri, V.

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“…The same argument was used by Balseiro et al (2003) and to justify why the oil patches did not penetrate into the Rías Baixas during November 2002. Although the wind/water velocity ratios observed either in the open ocean or the shelf are within the 1-6% range reported in the literature, it should be noted that they were lower than the 3.3% assumed in the model of Montero et al (2003) and the ~3% estimated by Garcia-Soto (2004) in the Cantabrian region.…”

Section: Oceanographic Conditions Off Galicia In Spring 2003mentioning

confidence: 87%

Influence of the oceanographic conditions during spring 2003 on the transport of the Prestige tanker fuel oil to the Galician coast

Álvarez‐Salgado

Áyala-Herrera

Gago

et al. 2006

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Section: Oceanographic Conditions Off Galicia In Spring 2003mentioning

confidence: 87%

Influence of the oceanographic conditions during spring 2003 on the transport of the Prestige tanker fuel oil to the Galician coast

Álvarez‐Salgado

Áyala-Herrera

Gago

et al. 2006

Marine Pollution Bulletin

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“…The first operational model for West Iberia was developed in the aftermath of the Prestige oil spill on Galician waters using the MOHID model to estimate the extension and patterns of the oil plume dispersion (Carracedo et al, 2006;Balseiro et al, 2003). At this moment a preliminary system is already available for West Iberia, having at its core a model for oil and inert spills already built in MOHID.…”

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An operational model for the West Iberian coast: products and services

Mateus¹,

Riflet²,

Chambel

et al. 2012

Ocean Sci.

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Abstract. This paper presents the structure and application of a regional scale operational modelling tool for the West Iberian coast, and discusses its potential for products and services for both scientific and coastal management activities. The forecasting suite includes nested hydrodynamic models forced with up-to-date meteorological forecast data and large-scale model results. The present status of the system and its recent upgrades are reviewed, offering a general description of the main components of the system: the forcing data, the circulation model, the model outputs and the validation methodology of model results. Seasonal differences in temperature, salinity and current velocity fields are illustrated and show satisfactory reproduction of the top and deep layer thermodynamics. The system provides boundary forcing for a number of local-scale model applications via downscaling of the solution and enables potential products and services from which civil society will benefit.

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“…The ship sank in the Atlantic Ocean the 19th of November, 2002. Around 10 million gallons of crude oil were spilled, polluting thousands of kilometers of coastline in Spain, France and Portugal [4]. This spill is considered the largest environmental disaster in the history of both Spain and Portugal and the cost of this hazard was evaluated to more than 770 million euros [25].…”

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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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Tracking the Prestige oil spill: An operational experience in simulation at MeteoGalicia

Cited by 33 publications

References 9 publications

Influence of the oceanographic conditions during spring 2003 on the transport of the Prestige tanker fuel oil to the Galician coast

Influence of the oceanographic conditions during spring 2003 on the transport of the Prestige tanker fuel oil to the Galician coast

An operational model for the West Iberian coast: products and services

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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