1 A numerical simulation of spilled oil behavior of ice-covered sea in the Sea of Okhotsk
A risk of oil pollution has been arisen in the Sea of Okhotsk since the start of the crude-oil/gas production at northern part of Sakhalin Island. Exploitation and transportation during sea ice season will raise the risk of oil accident. It is one of the most effective ways to establish computation...
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| Summary: | A risk of oil pollution has been arisen in the Sea of Okhotsk since the start of the crude-oil/gas production at northern part of Sakhalin Island. Exploitation and transportation during sea ice season will raise the risk of oil accident. It is one of the most effective ways to establish computation system which can compute spilled oil behavior of ice-covered sea to prevent the damage from oil spreading. We are developing a prototype of a system for spilled oil forecasting. This system can perform high resolution computation at low computational cost. Spilled oil radii both in open and fully ice-covered waters computed from the present oil diffusion model agree well with those of the experimental results. Sample computations for the Sea of Okhotsk have demonstrated reasonable behavior of oil spreading in marginal ice zones, showing the possibilities to establish practical forecasting system which can express spilled oil diffusion and advection in ice-covered sea in the Sea of Okhotsk. 1. |
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