{"id":3136,"date":"2014-05-15T09:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2021-07-06T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T17:15:53","slug":"a-relocatable-ocean-model-in-support-of-environmental-emergencies-the-costa-concordia-emergency-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"A Relocatable Ocean Model in support of environmental emergencies &#8211; The Costa Concordia emergency case"},"content":{"rendered":"During the Costa Concordia emergency case,\r\nregional, subregional, and relocatable ocean models have\r\nbeen used together with the oil spill model, MEDSLIKII,\r\nto provide ocean currents forecasts, possible oil spill\r\nscenarios, and drifters trajectories simulations. The models\r\nresults together with the evaluation of their performances\r\nare presented in this paper. In particular, we focused\r\nthis work on the implementation of the Interactive RElocatable\r\nNested Ocean Model (IRENOM), based on the\r\nHarvard Ocean Prediction System (HOPS), for the Costa\r\nConcordia emergency and on its validation using drifters\r\nreleased in the area of the accident. It is shown that thanks to\r\nthe capability of improving easily and quickly its configuration,\r\nthe IRENOM results are of greater accuracy than the\r\nresults achieved using regional or subregional model products.\r\nThe model topography, the initialization procedures,\r\nand the horizontal resolution are the key model settings to\r\nbe configured. Furthermore, the IRENOM currents and the\r\nMEDSLIK-II simulated trajectories showed to be sensitive\r\nto the spatial resolution of the meteorological fields used,\r\nproviding higher prediction skills with higher resolution\r\nwind forcing.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Costa Concordia emergency case, regional, subregional, and relocatable ocean models have been used together with the oil spill model, MEDSLIKII, to provide ocean currents forecasts, possible oil spill scenarios, and drifters trajectories simulations. The models results together with the evaluation of their performances are presented in this paper. In particular, we focused this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,28,5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numerical-ocean-modeling","category-multiscale-ocean-modeling","category-publications","category-papers-in-refereed-journals-multiscale-ocean-modeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mseas.mit.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}