Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2012 Nov;64(11):2489-501. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.07.036. Epub 2012 Aug 15.
This paper describes details of an oil spill model, OILTRANS, developed by the authors. The model is an off-line particle-transport model coupled to the most up to date operational met-ocean model forecasts. Formulations for the dominant oil fate processes of spreading, advection, diffusion, evaporation, emulsification and dispersion have been encoded, providing the model with the ability to accurately predict the horizontal movement of surface oil slick, the vertical entrainment of oil into the water column and the mass balance of spilled oil. The application of the OILTRANS model to an accidental release during a ship-to-ship fuel transfer in the Celtic Sea in February 2009 is presented to validate the system. Comparisons with aerial observations of the oil slick at the time of the incident, and subsequent model simulations, indicate that the OILTRANS model is capable of accurately predicting the transport and fate of the oil slick.
本文描述了作者开发的溢油模型 OILTRANS 的详细信息。该模型是一个离线的粒子输运模型，与最新的海洋气象业务模型预报耦合。已对主要的溢油命运过程（扩展、平流、扩散、蒸发、乳化和分散）进行了公式化处理，使模型能够准确预测浮油的水平运动、油向水柱的垂直夹带以及溢油的质量平衡。该溢油模型已应用于 2009 年 2 月在凯尔特海进行的船对船燃料转移事故中的溢油事故，以验证该系统。与事故发生时浮油的空中观测以及随后的模型模拟进行比较，表明 OILTRANS 模型能够准确预测浮油的输运和归宿。
