Simulation of oil slick drift with the PETROMAR-3D model in case of offshore spills in waters adjacent to the Brazilian northeast
Creators: name: Calzada, Amilcar E.
name: Varona, Humberto L.
name: Noriega, Carlos
name: Chang, Dayron
name: Rodriguez, Alejandro
name: Reyes, Dailin
name: Araujo, Moacyr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Oil slick drift
PETROMAR-3D model
HYCOM model
Offshore spills
GEBCO bathymetry
Brazilian northeast

description: This technical note presents the graphical outputs of the lagrangian model PETROMAR-3D, version 2.1G, specialized to assume the operative work before real spills and to obtain statistical results before climatic executions. The scenarios were created in the waters adjacent to the Brazilian NE, with simulation times of thirty days, every 3 hours in the most representative months of each season of the year. The numerical simulations were focused to characterize the oil drift, taking 3 starting points located at (30°W, 6°S), (30°W, 7°S) and (30°W, 8°S). As initial and boundary conditions the surface currents of the HYCOM (global domain 3-hourly and 1/12 degree analysis) hydrodynamic model were used and for the spill a light crude oil of 35 API (849 kg m<sup>-3</sup>) and initial volumes of 3145 bb (500 m<sup>3</sup>) were considered. As main results, it was found that the spills located at point 1 had the fastest drifts and in many cases the slick continued to the north. Those with starting point 2 had slower drifts, but with moderate impacts on the coast, and finally, the spills starting from point 3 had the slowest drifts of all cases, however, they concentrated the most severe impacts on the adjacent coastal sectors. In January and October they have the most severe impacts and in October they have the fastest drifts, an event that should be taken into account by decision makers, in order to have more effective responses for these cases. All figures of the simulations can be found at: Main results of simulation of oil slick drift with the PETROMAR-3D model in case of offshore spills in waters adjacent to the Brazilian northeast.
description: Carlos Noriega acknowledges the Human Resources Program of the Brazilian National Petroleum Agency, PRH-ANP n°38, for the postdoctoral scholarship, process number 044819. Humberto L. Varona acknowledges the TRIATLAS project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under grant agreement no. 817578. Moacyr Araujo acknowledges the support of the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change-Rede CLIMA (FINEP grants 01.13.0353-00). This work is a contribution to the Projects INCT AmbTropic–Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Tropical Marine Environments (grants 565054/2010-4, 625 8936/2011, and 465634/2014-1, CNPq/FAPESB/CAPES), and to the International Joint Laboratory TAPIOCA (IRD-UFPE-UFRPE)..
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