[HTML][HTML] Oil spill modeling: A critical review on current trends, perspectives, and challenges

P Keramea, K Spanoudaki, G Zodiatis, G Gikas… - Journal of marine …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Several oil spill simulation models exist in the literature, which are used worldwide to
simulate the evolution of an oil slick created from marine traffic, petroleum production, or …

Dispersants as an oil spill clean-up technique in the marine environment: A review

YK Adofo, E Nyankson, B Agyei-Tuffour - Heliyon, 2022‏ - cell.com
Oil is a major source of energy in the industrial world. Exploitation of oil and rigging
activities, transportation via sea, and many other mechanical failures lead to oil spills into the …

Plastic waste discharge to the global ocean constrained by seawater observations

Y Zhang, P Wu, R Xu, X Wang, L Lei… - nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Marine plastic pollution poses a potential threat to the ecosystem, but the sources and their
magnitudes remain largely unclear. Existing bottom-up emission inventories vary among …

Global simulations of marine plastic transport show plastic trap** in coastal zones

V Onink, CE Jongedijk, MJ Hoffman… - Environmental …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Global coastlines potentially contain significant amounts of plastic debris, with harmful
implications for marine and coastal ecosystems, fisheries and tourism. However, the global …

Decision support tools for oil spill response (OSR-DSTs): Approaches, challenges, and future research perspectives

Z Yang, Z Chen, K Lee, E Owens, MC Boufadel… - Marine Pollution …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Marine oil spills pose a significant threat to ocean and coastal ecosystems. In addition to
costs incurred by response activities, an economic burden could be experienced by …

Modelling size distributions of marine plastics under the influence of continuous cascading fragmentation

MLA Kaandorp, HA Dijkstra… - Environmental Research …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Field studies in the global ocean have shown that plastic fragments make up the majority of
plastic pollution in terms of abundance. It is not well understood how quickly plastics in the …

Towards a common oil spill risk assessment framework–adapting ISO 31000 and addressing uncertainties

AAS Neves, N Pinardi, F Martins, J Janeiro… - Journal of …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Oil spills are a transnational problem, and establishing a common standard methodology for
Oil Spill Risk Assessments (OSRAs) is thus paramount in order to protect marine …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling chronic oil pollution from ships

S Liubartseva, G Coppini, G Verdiani, T Mungari… - Marine Pollution …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Stochastic simulations of virtual oil spills from ships were performed for the Adriatic Sea over
2017–2020, applying the European Marine Observation and Data Network vessel densities …

[HTML][HTML] Oil spill model uncertainty quantification using an atmospheric ensemble

K Kampouris, V Vervatis, J Karagiorgos… - Ocean …, 2021‏ - os.copernicus.org
We investigate the impact of atmospheric forcing uncertainties on the prediction of the
dispersion of pollutants in the marine environment. Ensemble simulations consisting of 50 …

REPSOL oil spill off Central Perú in January 2022: A modeling case study

R Mogollón, C Arellano, P Villegas… - Marine Pollution …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This study simulates the spillage of 1460 metric tons of oil that occurred in January 2022 off
La Pampilla Refinery, in central Perú. The oil slick was predominantly displaced northward …