Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges

Alejandro Gallego; Murray R O'Hara; Barbara Berx; William R. Turrell; C. J. Beegle-Krause; Mark Inall; Toby Sherwin; John Siddorn; Sarah Wakelin; Vasyl Vlasenko; Lars R. Hole; Knut Frode Dagestad; John Rees; Lucy Short; Petter Rønningen; Charlotte E. Main; Sebastien Legrand; Tony Gutierrez; Ursula Witte; Nicole Mulanaphy

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002

Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges

Alejandro Gallego^*
, Murray R O'Hara
, Barbara Berx
, William R. Turrell
, C. J. Beegle-Krause
, Mark Inall
, Toby Sherwin
, John Siddorn
, Sarah Wakelin
, Vasyl Vlasenko
, Lars R. Hole
, Knut Frode Dagestad
, John Rees
, Lucy Short
, Petter Rønningen
, Charlotte E. Main
, Sebastien Legrand
, Tony Gutierrez
, Ursula Witte
, Nicole Mulanaphy

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Marine Scotland
SINTEF
Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory
Met Office
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Centre for the Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Oil Spill Response Limited
University of Southampton
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Heriot-Watt University
University of Aberdeen
RPS Group

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© 2017 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	484-504
Number of pages	0
Journal	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Volume	127
Issue number	0
Early online date	21 Dec 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002
Publication status	Published - Feb 2018

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Gallego, A., O'Hara, M. R., Berx, B., Turrell, W. R., Beegle-Krause, C. J., Inall, M., Sherwin, T., Siddorn, J., Wakelin, S., Vlasenko, V., Hole, L. R., Dagestad, K. F., Rees, J., Short, L., Rønningen, P., Main, C. E., Legrand, S., Gutierrez, T., Witte, U., & Mulanaphy, N. (2018). Current status of deepwater oil spill modelling in the Faroe-Shetland Channel, Northeast Atlantic, and future challenges. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 127(0), 484-504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.002

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