Biodegradation
; Blowouts
; Deepwater drilling
; Oceanography
; Oil spills
; Oil well flooding
; Oil wells
; Pollution
; A-particles
; Hydrocarbon plume
; Interannual variability
; Model temperatures
; Ocean circulation
; Ocean general circulation models
; Plumes
; Temporal variability
; Oil well drilling
; blowout
; hydrocarbon
; oceanic general circulation model
; oil spill
; oil well
; plume
; pollutant transport
; biodegradation
; deep sea
; model
; oil field
; oil spill
; plume
; analysis
; Arctic
; bioremediation
; chemistry
; Gammaproteobacteria
; growth, development and aging
; microbiology
; oil and gas field
; oil spill
; sea
; theoretical model
; water flow
; Atlantic Ocean
; Faroe-Shetland Channel
; hydrocarbon
; sea water
; Arctic Regions
; Biodegradation, Environmental
; Gammaproteobacteria
; Hydrocarbons
; Models, Theoretical
; Oceans and Seas
; Oil and Gas Fields
; Petroleum Pollution
; Seawater
; Water Movements
Scopus学科分类:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Little is known about the fate of subsurface hydrocarbon plumes from deep-sea oil well blowouts and their effects on processes and communities. As deepwater drilling expands in the Faroe–Shetland Channel (FSC), oil well blowouts are a possibility, and the unusual ocean circulation of this region presents challenges to understanding possible subsurface oil pathways in the event of a spill. Here, an ocean general circulation model was used with a particle tracking algorithm to assess temporal variability of the oil-plume distribution from a deep-sea oil well blowout in the FSC. The drift of particles was first tracked for one year following release. Then, ambient model temperatures were used to simulate temperature-mediated biodegradation, truncating the trajectories of particles accordingly. Release depth of the modeled subsurface plumes affected both their direction of transport and distance travelled from their release location, and there was considerable interannual variability in transport. � 2016 The Authors
National Oceanography Centre, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom; Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Waterfront Campus, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom; Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Western Isles Office, Talla na Mara, Pairc Niseaboist, Harris, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Main C.E.,Yool A.,Holliday N.P.,et al. Simulating pathways of subsurface oil in the Faroe–Shetland Channel using an ocean general circulation model[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,114(1)