scholarly journals Monitoring Systems and Numerical Models to Study Coastal Sites

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Armenio ◽  
Mouldi Ben Meftah ◽  
Diana De Padova ◽  
Francesca De Serio ◽  
Michele Mossa
Keyword(s):  
Hydrodynamic Model ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Circulation Pattern ◽  
Pollution Transport ◽  
Hydrodynamic Processes ◽  
Pollution Transport Model

The present work aims at illustrating how the joint use of monitoring data and numerical models can be beneficial in understanding coastal processes. In the first part, we show and discuss an annual dataset provided by a monitoring system installed in a vulnerable coastal basin located in Southern Italy, subjected to human and industrial pressures. The collected data have been processed and analysed to detect the temporal evolution of the most representative parameters of the inspected site and have been compared with recordings from previous years to investigate recursive trends. In the second part, to demonstrate to what extent such type of monitoring actions is necessary and useful, the same data have been used to calibrate and run a 3D hydrodynamic model. After this, a reliable circulation pattern in the basin has been reproduced. Successively, an oil pollution transport model has been added to the hydrodynamic model, with the aim to present the response of the basin to some hypothetical cases of oil spills, caused by a ship failure. It is evident that the profitable prediction of the hydrodynamic processes and the transport and dispersion of contaminants strictly depends on the quality and reliability of the input data as well as on the calibration made.

AN EVALUATION OF OIL POLLUTION PROBABILITY IN THE LEVANTINE BASIN OFF ISRAEL

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Goldman ◽  
Ron Goldman ◽  
Eliyahu Biton ◽  
Eliyahu Biton ◽  
Isaac Gertman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
The Impact

Recent gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have led to multiple operations with substantial economic interest, and they are accompanied by the risk of oil spills and their potential environmental impacts. In this this study we compute the probability of an area being polluted by oil. The first stage of this computation is to determine what the likely scenarios for oil spills are, where the areas of higher oil spill probability are and what the expected size of the spill is. This study was performed as part of the RAOP-MED project, which considered ship collision scenarios, other accidental spill from ships and rigs, and accidents that might occur during fueling operations. The results of the project include a map of oil spill probability for the eastern Mediterranean that details different scenarios, as well as a map of the maximal spill size. We use these results to create possible oil spill scenarios and run Monte-Carlo simulations of the oil spill’s fate. The simulations use the MEDSLIK oil spill propagation model, forced by the realistic atmospheric and oceanic conditions that exist off the Israeli coast, as outlined by the SKIRON and SELIPS numerical models. Potential risk sources in the area are the ship traffic that enters and leaves the Suez channel, as well as the offshore platforms on the Nile Delta and in the Israeli exclusive economic zone. We also examine the impact of the alongshore current on the probability and severity of the pollution.

AN EVALUATION OF OIL POLLUTION PROBABILITY IN THE LEVANTINE BASIN OFF ISRAEL

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Goldman ◽  
Ron Goldman ◽  
Eliyahu Biton ◽  
Eliyahu Biton ◽  
Isaac Gertman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Nile Delta ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Numerical Models ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Offshore Platforms ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
The Impact

Recent gas discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have led to multiple operations with substantial economic interest, and they are accompanied by the risk of oil spills and their potential environmental impacts. In this this study we compute the probability of an area being polluted by oil. The first stage of this computation is to determine what the likely scenarios for oil spills are, where the areas of higher oil spill probability are and what the expected size of the spill is. This study was performed as part of the RAOP-MED project, which considered ship collision scenarios, other accidental spill from ships and rigs, and accidents that might occur during fueling operations. The results of the project include a map of oil spill probability for the eastern Mediterranean that details different scenarios, as well as a map of the maximal spill size. We use these results to create possible oil spill scenarios and run Monte-Carlo simulations of the oil spill’s fate. The simulations use the MEDSLIK oil spill propagation model, forced by the realistic atmospheric and oceanic conditions that exist off the Israeli coast, as outlined by the SKIRON and SELIPS numerical models. Potential risk sources in the area are the ship traffic that enters and leaves the Suez channel, as well as the offshore platforms on the Nile Delta and in the Israeli exclusive economic zone. We also examine the impact of the alongshore current on the probability and severity of the pollution.

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