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Oil Spill Beaching Probability for the Mediterranean Sea

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Oil Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea: Part I

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In this chapter, different kinds of oil spill beaching maps are proposed for the Mediterranean. These beaching maps can be useful as a complementary tool to vulnerability analysis and risk assessment in the Mediterranean. Firstly, it is defined an oil beaching map for a single point, which is the situation, for example, in the analysis of an oil platform. Next, the oil beaching map is defined for a line, analysing the main route of oil tankers in the Mediterranean. The final oil beaching maps defined show the percentage of particles which reach the coast in an interval of time: one week, two weeks, one month and two months. The information depicted in the maps is based on Lagrangian simulations using particles as a proxy of oil spills evolving according the environmental conditions provided by a hindcast model of the Mediterranean circulation.

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank the support from projects MEDESS-4MS (Mediterranean Decision Support System for Marine Safety, MED 2S-MED11-01) and TOSCA (Tracking Oil Spills and Coastal Awareness, G-MED09-425) both funded by the MED-INTEREG IVA program from the European Commission and project MIDAS-7 (AYA2012-39356-C05-03) funded by the Spanish National Research program funded by MICIN. Special thanks to Fernando Pérez for his support and technical assistance with the computational cluster Gaia. The oceanic daily outputs have been provided by the SiMED french project funded by GMMC. The authors wish to thank ENSTA-ParisTech and Mercator Ocean for providing the oceanic fields. The NEMO-MED12 simulation was granted access to the HPC resources of IDRIS of CNRS (project number 010227) made by GENCI. We thank M. Déqué from Météo-France for running the ARPERA simulation.

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  1. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49., E-08003, Barcelona, Spain

    J. A. Jiménez Madrid & E. García-Ladona

  2. Agencia Sociedad Española de Salvamento Marítimo (SASEMAR), Fruela 3, 28011, Madrid, Spain

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Jiménez Madrid, J.A., García-Ladona, E., Blanco-Meruelo, B. (2016). Oil Spill Beaching Probability for the Mediterranean Sea. In: Carpenter, A., Kostianoy, A. (eds) Oil Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea: Part I. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 83. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_37

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