Offshore oil spills are of tremendous concern due to their potential impact on economic and
ecological systems. A number of major oil spills triggered worldwide consciousness of oil …

The state-of-the-art in oil spill modeling is summarized, focusing primarily on the years from
1990 to the present. All models seek to describe the key physical and chemical processes …

The processes of transport, diffusion and transformation of surface oil in seawater can be
simulated using a Lagrangian model formalism coupled with Eulerian circulation models …

This review is intended as a comprehensive but concise summary of present capabilities in
coastal pollutant, ecosystem and water quality modelling. It reflects the recent rapid …

Marine water quality monitoring is performed for compliance with regulatory issues, trend
detection, model validation and assessment of the effectiveness of adopted policies. As the …

This paper presents the development and application of two-dimensional and three-
dimensional oil trajectory and fate models for coastal waters. In the two-dimensional model …

Small amounts of oil that can persist for decades in the intertidal zone of coarse-sediment
beaches have been documented in a few well-studied cases. Oil that survives attenuation …

Calculation of oil droplet size distribution is one of the key components of ocean oil spill
models. Oil fate and transport calculations of the model are significantly impacted by the …

The interactions of physically dispersed oil droplets with suspended particulate material
(SPM) can be important for the transport of bulk quantities of spilled crude oil and polycyclic …

A state-of-the-art, three-dimensional oil spill model (WOSM/OILMAP) was applied to
hindcast the transport and fate of the Braer oil spill, which occurred off the southern coast of …