Pollution of the Barents Sea by the Petroleum Hydrocarbons

• Main Author: Lemenkova, Polina
• Other Authors: Ocean University of China (OUC), Tyumen State Oil and Gas University
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: Russian
• Published: HAL CCSD 2015
• Subjects: Hydrological Modelling; Climatic Suitability; Climatic adaptations; Climate Change; Climate Change Impacts; Environmental Change; Environmental Assessment; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Hydrological analysis; [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; [SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography; [SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.STU.CL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology; Arctic; Climate change; Global warming; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02017746; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02017746/document; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02017746/file/Lemenkova_Pollution_Barents.pdf; https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7211531

International audience The Barents sea is a unique basin of the Russian Arctic. It is a single hydrodynamic system with complex hydrological and climatic conditions. At the same time, the region of the Barents sea has certain anthropogenic impacts associated with the exploration, production and development of the oil fields in the surrounding area. Physical characteristics of the Barents-Kara region are mainly determined by its location in the Polar region (Arctic), as well as certain climate effects: global warming influence coming from the North Atlantic. The interaction between these factros initiates great variability of the meteorological parameters during the year. The paper discusses some of the environmental problems in the Barents sea region.