Statmap—a 3-dimensional model for oil spill risk assessment

Abstract

Stochastic oil spill models have traditionally focussed on the production of statistics for oil on the sea surface and along shorelines. Environmental risk analyses of potential spills therefore have tended to neglect potential risks to organisms in the water column. StatMap fills this void, supplying in addition statistics on the spatial distribution of hydrocarbon concentrations in the water column. This paper describes the model concepts and provides examples of model input and output.