Peer-reviewed articlePublished in Switzerland · State-affiliatedOpen access
Risk assessment of offshore oil spill in the northern South China Sea: A stochastic scenario modeling approach
Bingxu Geng, Wen Zhou, Lingyan Lu, Qian Cao, Man Hong, Ding Wen · Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
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The researchers combine hydrodynamic and oil-dispersion models with stochastic scenarios to estimate coastal arrival times and pollution probabilities. Their results identify wind direction as the dominant control on dispersion direction, alongside location-dependent tidal influences.