title: Marine oil spill risk mapping for accidental pollution and its application in a coastal city.
abstract: Accidental marine oil spill pollution can result in severe environmental, ecological, economic and other consequences. This paper discussed the model of Marine Oil Spill Risk Mapping (MOSRM), which was constructed as follows: (1) proposing a marine oil spill risk system based on the typical marine oil spill pollution accidents and prevailing risk theories; (2) identifying suitable indexes that are supported by quantitative sub-indexes; (3) constructing the risk measuring models according to the actual interactions between the factors in the risk system; and (4) assessing marine oil spill risk on coastal city scale with GIS to map the overall risk. The case study of accidental marine oil spill pollution in the coastal area of Dalian, China was used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model. The coastal areas of Dalian were divided into three zones with risk degrees of high, medium, and low. And detailed countermeasures were proposed for specific risk zones.
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Dongdong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lan
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China. Electronic address: bliang@nmemc.org.cn.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Chenguang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Minghui
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Yan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian 116023, China.
authors.forename: Chunyan
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D002681:China; D004777:Environment; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D008956:Models, Chemical; D059392:Petroleum Pollution / Q000032:analysis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012623:Seawater / Q000737:chemistry; D014877:Water Pollution, Chemical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
keywords: Dalian coastal area; Marine oil spill pollution; Risk mapping