A 30-Year Probability Map for Oil Spill Trajectories in the Barents Sea to Assess Potential Environmental and Socio-Economic Threats

• Published in: Resources
• Main Authors: Victor Pavlov, Victor Cesar Martins de Aguiar, Lars Robert Hole, Eva Pongrácz
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Arctic marine resources; oil drift; OpenDrift; OpenOil; oil spill simulations; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Ifo
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/resources11010001

Increasing exploration and exploitation activity in the Arctic Ocean has intensified maritime traffic in the Barents Sea. Due to the sparse population and insufficient oil spill response infrastructure on the extensive Barents Sea shoreline, it is necessary to address the possibility of offshore acc...