Numerical study of oil spilled behavior under ice-covered area

The Recent demands of commercial shipping through the Arctic and exploit of natural resources increase the risk of an oil spill in the Arctic Ocean. State-of-the-art modeling techniques are necessary for prevention measures and oil response and determine the fate and effect of oil in the environments. So we developed a numerical simulation model for spilled oil forecasting under ice-covered areas. This simulation model can perform high-resolution computations at low computational cost. Numerical model results of oil spreading over open water, under fully ice-covered water, and under a broken ice field are agreed reasonably well with the previous experimental results. Results of oil spilled behavior under the ice-covered area in the East Siberian Sea have shown the possibility of establishing an accurate and practical forecast system for oil spreading under a marginal ice covers.