Oil spill model systems are used by industry and government to assist in planning and emergency decision making. Of critical importance for the skill of the oil spill model prediction is the adequate description of the wind and current fields. There is a worldwide oil spill modelling (WOSM) program.Anderson, E.L., E. Howlett, K. Jayko, V. Kolluru, M. Reed, and M. Spaulding. 1993. The worldwide oil spill model (WOSM): an overview. Pp. 627–646 in Proceedings of the 16th Arctic and Marine Oil Spill Program, Technical Seminar. Ottawa, Ontario: Environment Canada. Tracking the scope of an oil spill may also involve verifying that hydrocarbons collected during an ongoing spill are derived from the active spill or some other source. This can involve sophisticated analytical chemistry focused on finger printing an oil source based on the complex mixture of substances present. Largely, these will be various hydrocarbons, among the most useful being polyaromatic hydrocarbons. In addition, both oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic hydrocarbons, such as parent and alkyl homologues of carbazole, quinoline, and pyridine, are present in many crude oils. As a result, these compounds have great potential to supplement the existing suite of hydrocarbons targets to fine-tune source tracking of petroleum spills. Such analysis can also be used to follow weathering and degradation of crude spills.
oil spill model systems are used by industry and government to assist in planning and emergency decision making of critical importance for the skill of the oil spill model prediction is the adequate description of the wind and current fields there is a worldwide oil spill modelling (wosm) programanderson el e howlett k jayko v kolluru m reed and m spaulding 1993 the worldwide oil spill model (wosm) an overview pp 627–646 in proceedings of the 16th arctic and marine oil spill program technical seminar ottawa ontario environment canada tracking the scope of an oil spill may also involve verifying that hydrocarbons collected during an ongoing spill are derived from the active spill or some other source this can involve sophisticated analytical chemistry focused on finger printing an oil source based on the complex mixture of substances present largely these will be various hydrocarbons among the most useful being polyaromatic hydrocarbons in addition both oxygen and nitrogen heterocyclic hydrocarbons such as parent and alkyl homologues of carbazole quinoline and pyridine are present in many crude oils as a result these compounds have great potential to supplement the existing suite of hydrocarbons targets to fine-tune source tracking of petroleum spills such analysis can also be used to follow weathering and degradation of crude spills