Author(s)

A. Scares dos Santos & P. Daniel

Abstract

World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). recognising that oil drift has a strong dependence on meteorology, created the Marine Pollution Emergency Response Support System (MPERSS). where Meteo-France is the co-ordinator for the high seas in the area Marine Pollution Incident II (MPIII) and Institute* de Meteorologia (Portugal) is a supporting service. Instituto de Meteorologia has also national responsibilities to agencies fighting marine pollution. Meteo-France developed an oil spill model, called MOTHY. designed to simulate a transport of oil in three dimensions. It consists of a hydroch namic ocean model linked to an oil spill model including shear current, turbulent diffusion and buoyancy. To provide a better marine pollution response near the Portuguese coast. M

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