Salish Sea Oil Spill Modelling

Author

Gorton, Bec (Environment, Hobart)

The Salish Sea oil spill modelling will use functionality developed in the Gladstone suite of projects and use the CONNIE ocean connectivity modelling tools to model the potential impact area of oil spills in the region.

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The Salish Sea particle tracking will be done using OceanParcels an open source particle tracking engine that can handle the native grid of the  NEMO model.

Sample scenarios runs are being completed to allow early results to be presented to the stakeholders in September 2019.

The following show the results of a single oil spill scenario in box 11 over 1 day, tracking particles for 7 days, assuming no decay (which is not realistic but helps debugging) and no wind (also not realistic).

Future modelling could include decay, but there is talk of this being modelled in Atlantis, as well as wind. There is no wind data in the UBC hydro model output so we will have to use global wind data.

Mapping the particles to the Atlantis boxes - assuming no particle decay when calculating the box values.