MOSES project - WP6 - Vector 1 - Marine spill risk

This map aims to identify spill locations in Atlantic European waters and construct a marine spill risks index for the coastal territories in the European Atlantic Arc.

In the construction of Vector 1 marine spill risk values for MOSES coastal NUTS3 regions were obtained from Fernández-Macho (2016) where a method for the evaluation of marine spill risks is proposed and applied to all European coastal territories. The method uses tools of geographic information systems and computer modelling to simu- late the effect of spills at sea. The modelling considers the size of the spill, its distance from the coast, the shape and length of coast that would be affected and the direction and speed of the ocean currents. It was applied to all recorded historical spills in European waters from 1970 to 2014 (ITOPF, 2015) for 429 Eurostat territorial units in 156 Eu- ropean coastal regions.

 
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Javier Fernandez-Macho (Institute for Public Economics and Dpt. of Econometrics and Statistics) - Mariapilar Gonzalez (Institute for Public Economics and Dpt. of Econometrics and Statistics) - Jorge Virto (Institute for Public Economics and Dpt. of Econometrics and Statistics) (2020) . MOSES project - WP6 - Vector 1 - Marine spill risk. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/7888d291-dcd2-482c-ae54-a5ea12a7e4b4

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Date ( Publication )
2020-11-12
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MOSES_WP6_VECTOR1
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MOSES project

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Mineral resources
AtlantOS Essential Variables ( parameter )
SeaDataNet Geospatial Feature Types ( feature-type )
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Vector
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English
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  • Oceans
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EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.4
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Surface
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MOSES WP6 Data gathering and compilation of indicators  
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MOSES WP6 Data processing and construction of synthetic index  
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MOSES WP6 Analysis and dissemination of results  
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MOSES_WP6_VECTOR1  

Vector 1 : Marine spill risk

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2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
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The data collected from ITOPF web site for the original data base reg- istered the following information: "Latitude", "Longitude", "Incident Date", "Incident Month" ,"Incident Day" ,"Incident Year", "Substance Spilt", "Vessel Type", "Ship Name", "Spill Size (barrels)", "Spill Size (gal- lons)", "Spill Size (tonnes)", "Cause", and "Location". For example, the entry for the 2002 Prestige spill off the coast of Galicia in North-West Spain looks like this: 42.250158, -12.136019, "11/13/2002", 11, 13, 2002

,"Bunker, Fuel (Cargo)", "Tanker", "PRESTIGE", , , 62657 ,"Hull failure", "Off Cap Finistere, Spain".

Unfortunately, the original source contained data until 2014 only and ITOPF appears to have canceled that page since. A final turn to the possibility of finding data on spills in European seas from 2015 was pursued with no success, which may suggest that no important events have occurred since. The main sites unsuccesfully contacted to request information about spills at sea were these: https://www. marinetraffic.com, https://www.espo.be/, http://www.itopf.org/, https://eoportal.eumetsat.int/, https://scihub.copernicus.eu/, http://www.emsa.europa.eu/, https://incidentnews.noaa.gov/. As pointed out, nevertheless, this lack of information may as well mean the absence of major spill incidents in Atlantic European waters in recent years.

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7888d291-dcd2-482c-ae54-a5ea12a7e4b4   XML
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2020-11-18T07:42:06
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0

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