We are trying to develop a forecast system for oil spills based on ocean currents climatology. This is not a real-time modeling system, but rather based on scenarios. I am interested in having information about real time forecast system and early warning alerts during oil spills, an particularly hearing experiences of actual users during contingencies.
The 2017 Ennore oil spill was an oil spill that Chennai co in Tamil Nadu, India. The spill occurred on 28 January 2017 when an outbound empty tanker BW Maple collided with an inbound loaded oil tanker Dawn Kanchipuram. It spreaded immediate to all the area. It is very difficult to clean up
Some preliminary investigation i have done and shown one paper which is available here
We at INCOIS an office under Ministry of Earth Science in India is providing this service on operational basis. The location of oil spill will be reported to us by coast guards and our oil spill model is run and the possible dispersion is reported. Each such scenario is generated using the model and the output is made available on the website. The link for looking at the oil spill trajectory prediction can be obtained from https://www.incois.gov.in/portal/osf/oosa.jsp
For more information about the same you may contact Dr SJ Prasad of INCOIS. Hen can be reached at [email protected].
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