D051 Oil spill
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MODELLING THE OIL SPILL TRACK FROM PRESTIGE-NASSAU ACCIDENT
P. Montero (1), P. Leitão (2), E. Penabad (1), C.F. Balseiro (1), P. Carracedo (1), F. Braunschweig (2), R. Fernandes (2), B. Gómez (1), V. Pérez-Muñuzuri (1) and R. Neves (2) (1) MeteoGalicia- CMA, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, (2) Maretec, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (pedro@fmmeteo.usc.es)
Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 5, 12647, 2003
Summary
On November 13th 2002, the tank ship Prestige-Nassau sent a SOS signal. The hull of the ship was damaged producing an oil spill in front of the Galician coast (NW Spain). The damaged ship took north direction spilling more fuel and affecting the western Galician coast. After this, it changed its track to south. At this first stage of the accident, the ship spilt
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