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Performance and compatibility analysis of oil weathering and transport-related models for use in the environmental assessment process. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6470337
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OCSEAP has developed and verified a suite of models to study the transport and fate of oil spills in the Alaskan OCS. The objectives of the study are to analyze four specific oil spill models and to recommend modifications allowing their sequential or integrated use in defining the fate of an oil spill. The project consisted of a comprehensive review of the model characteristics and physical assumptions incorporated into existing models and a study of how they can be effectively combined to support environmental assessment using microcomputers. Redundant model features and missing model features were identified. Various methods for combing the computer codes were compared. A low cost combined code is to develop the I/O software with simple architecture, combine the existing oil spill models in the simplist manner, and prepare a database, without addressing the missing features. The top of the line combined code is to develop menu-driven I/O software, develop a new integrated oil spill model, add code to address the missing features, and to prepare a database.
Research Organization:
BDM International, Inc., Seattle, WA (USA)
OSTI ID:
6470337
Report Number(s):
PB-90-265950/XAB; BDM/SEA--90-0024-TR
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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