title: Oil spill hazard from dispersal of oil along shipping lanes in the Southern Adriatic and Northern Ionian Seas.
abstract: An assessment of hazard stemming from operational oil ship discharges in the Southern Adriatic and Northern Ionian (SANI) Seas is presented. The methodology integrates ship traffic data, the fate and transport oil spill model MEDSLIK-II, coupled with the Mediterranean Forecasting System (MFS) ocean currents, sea surface temperature analyses and ECMWF surface winds. Monthly and climatological hazard maps were calculated for February 2009 through April 2013. Monthly hazard distributions of oil show that the zones of highest sea surface hazard are located in the southwestern Adriatic Sea and eastern Ionian Sea. Distinctive "hot spots" appear in front of the Taranto Port and the sea area between Corfu Island and the Greek coastlines. Beached oil hazard maps indicate the highest values in the Taranto Port area, on the eastern Greek coastline, as well as in the Bari Port area and near Brindisi Port area.
authors.affiliation: Centro EuroMediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Bologna, Italy. Electronic address: svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liubartseva
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Dominicis
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Oddo
authors.affiliation: Centro EuroMediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coppini
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Pinardi
authors.affiliation: Italian Coast Guard Headquarters, Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Greggio
mesh_terms: D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005544:Forecasting; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D059392:Petroleum Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D012767:Ships; D013696:Temperature; D014872:Water Movements; D014919:Wind
keywords: Hazard mapping; Oil spill modelling; Operational oil pollution; Southern Adriatic and Northern Ionian Seas