Structured pathways in the turbulence organizing recent oil spill events in the Eastern Mediterranean.

ABSTRACT: The chaotic nature of ocean motion is a major challenge that hinders the discovery of spatio-temporal current routes that govern the transport of material. Certain material, such as oil spills, pose significant environmental threats and these are enhanced by the fact that they evolve in a chaotic sea, in a way which still nowadays is far from being systematically anticipated. Recently such an oil spill event has affected the Mediterranean coast of several Middle Eastern countries. No accidents were reported for these spills previous to their arrival at the coast, and therefore there was no hint of their origin. Modelling such an event, in which uncertainties are increased due to the lack of information on where and when the spills was produced, stretches available technologies to their lim

SUBMITTER: Garcia-Sanchez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8901743 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature