TY - JOUR
T1 - Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges
AU - Gallego, Alejandro
AU - O'Hara Murray, Rory
AU - Berx, Barbara
AU - Turrell, William R.
AU - Beegle-Krause, C. J.
AU - Inall, Mark
AU - Sherwin, Toby
AU - Siddorn, John
AU - Wakelin, Sarah
AU - Vlasenko, Vasyl
AU - Hole, Lars R.
AU - Dagestad, Knut Frode
AU - Rees, John
AU - Short, Lucy
AU - Rønningen, Petter
AU - Main, Charlotte E.
AU - Legrand, Sebastien
AU - Gutierrez, Tony
AU - Witte, Ursula
AU - Mulanaphy, Nicole
N1 - Funding Information:
Marine Scotland Science, the Science Division of the Marine Scotland Directorate of the Scottish Government, hosted a Deepwater Oil Spill Modelling Workshop on 18-19 September 2013 ( Turrell et al., 2014 ). The workshop was attended by over 50 international experts from academia, government research institutes, consultancies and industry. This review article incorporates an updated description of the contents of the workshop presentations and subsequent discussion sessions. Authorship order beyond the fifth co-author is chronological by the order of workshop presentations. The authors (workshop organisers and presenters) would like to thank all the helpers and, in particular, the workshop participants for their contribution to discussions and, consequently, the contents of the present article. The cost of hosting the workshop and the work of the MSS authors were funded by the Scottish Government . We would like to acknowledge the useful comments of a referee.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - As oil reserves in established basins become depleted, exploration and production moves towards relatively unexploited areas, such as deep waters off the continental shelf. The Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC, NE Atlantic) and adjacent areas have been subject to increased focus by the oil industry. In addition to extreme depths, metocean conditions in this region characterise an environment with high waves and strong winds, strong currents, complex circulation patterns, sharp density gradients, and large small- and mesoscale variability. These conditions pose operational challenges to oil spill response and question the suitability of current oil spill modelling frameworks (oil spill models and their forcing data) to adequately simulate the behaviour of a potential oil spill in the area. This article reviews the state of knowledge relevant to deepwater oil spill modelling for the FSC area and identifies knowledge gaps and research priorities. Our analysis should be relevant to other areas of complex oceanography.
AB - As oil reserves in established basins become depleted, exploration and production moves towards relatively unexploited areas, such as deep waters off the continental shelf. The Faroe-Shetland Channel (FSC, NE Atlantic) and adjacent areas have been subject to increased focus by the oil industry. In addition to extreme depths, metocean conditions in this region characterise an environment with high waves and strong winds, strong currents, complex circulation patterns, sharp density gradients, and large small- and mesoscale variability. These conditions pose operational challenges to oil spill response and question the suitability of current oil spill modelling frameworks (oil spill models and their forcing data) to adequately simulate the behaviour of a potential oil spill in the area. This article reviews the state of knowledge relevant to deepwater oil spill modelling for the FSC area and identifies knowledge gaps and research priorities. Our analysis should be relevant to other areas of complex oceanography.
KW - Deepwater
KW - Faroe-Shetland Channel
KW - Modelling
KW - Northeast Atlantic
KW - Oil spill
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85038379125
U2 - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29475689
AN - SCOPUS:85038379125
SN - 0025-326X
VL - 127
SP - 484
EP - 504
JO - Marine Pollution Bulletin
JF - Marine Pollution Bulletin
ER -
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production