Hindcast of oil-spill pollution during the Lebanon crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean, July-August 2006

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 140-153

  Coppini, Giovanni ^a,b   De Dominicis, Michela ^a   Zodiatis, George ^c   Lardner, Robin ^c   Pinardi, Nadia ^b   Santoleri, Rosalia ^d   Colella, Simone ^d   Bignami, Francesco ^d   Hayes, Daniel R ^c   Soloviev, Dmitry ^c   Georgiou, Georgios ^c   Kallos, George ^e  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Lebanese oil pollution event; Levantine Basin; Oil spill modeling; Operational oceanography; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION; HINDCASTS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LEBANON; LEVANTINE BASINS; LOCAL DECISIONS; NEAR-REAL TIME; OCEAN COLOR; OCEAN FORECASTS; OIL DISTRIBUTIONS; OIL POLLUTION; OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILLS; POLLUTION; REMOTE SENSING;

FORECASTING;

HINDCASTING; HYDRODYNAMICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILL; REMOTE SENSING;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HYDRODYNAMICS; LEBANON; OCEANOGRAPHY; OIL SPILL; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEA POLLUTION; SEASHORE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CHEMICAL HAZARD RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORECASTING; LEBANON; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PETROLEUM; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

LEBANON; LEVANTINE SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 78751633860     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.08.021     Document Type: Article

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