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A relocatable ocean model in support of environmental emergencies

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dc.contributor.authorDe Dominicis, Michela
dc.contributor.authorFalchetti, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorTrotta, Francesco
dc.contributor.authorPinardi, Nadia
dc.contributor.authorGiacomelli, Luca
dc.contributor.authorNapolitano, Ernesto
dc.contributor.authorFazioli, Leopoldo
dc.contributor.authorSorgente, Roberto
dc.contributor.authorHaley, Patrick J., Jr.
dc.contributor.authorLermusiaux, Pierre F. J.
dc.contributor.authorMartins, Flavio
dc.contributor.authorCocco, Michele
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-07T14:53:50Z
dc.date.available2018-12-07T14:53:50Z
dc.date.issued2014-05
dc.description.abstractDuring the Costa Concordia emergency case, regional, subregional, and relocatable ocean models have been used together with the oil spill model, MEDSLIK-II, to provide ocean currents forecasts, possible oil spill scenarios, and drifters trajectories simulations. The models results together with the evaluation of their performances are presented in this paper. In particular, we focused this work on the implementation of the Interactive Relocatable Nested Ocean Model (IRENOM), based on the Harvard Ocean Prediction System (HOPS), for the Costa Concordia emergency and on its validation using drifters released in the area of the accident. It is shown that thanks to the capability of improving easily and quickly its configuration, the IRENOM results are of greater accuracy than the results achieved using regional or subregional model products. The model topography, and to the initialization procedures, and the horizontal resolution are the key model settings to be configured. Furthermore, the IRENOM currents and the MEDSLIK-II simulated trajectories showed to be sensitive to the spatial resolution of the meteorological fields used, providing higher prediction skills with higher resolution wind forcing.
dc.description.sponsorshipMEDESS4MS Project; TESSA Project; MyOcean2 Project
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10236-014-0705-x
dc.identifier.issn1616-7341
dc.identifier.issn1616-7228
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11707
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherSpringer Heidelberg
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectOil-Spill Model
dc.subjectSurface Drifter Trajectories
dc.subjectHyper-Ensemble Statistics
dc.subjectMediterranean Sea
dc.subjectForecasting system
dc.subjectPrediction system
dc.subjectHigh-resolution
dc.subjectOperational oceanography
dc.subjectData assimilation
dc.subjectMedslik-Ii
dc.titleA relocatable ocean model in support of environmental emergencies
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage688
oaire.citation.issue5
oaire.citation.startPage667
oaire.citation.titleOcean Dynamics
oaire.citation.volume64
person.familyNameMartins
person.givenNameFlávio
person.identifier.ciencia-id6711-E990-FFD9
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-9863-6255
person.identifier.ridU-2673-2018
person.identifier.scopus-author-id7006504350
rcaap.rightsopenAccess
rcaap.typearticle
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