Study Factors Climate Change Into Oil Spill Risk Analysis

摘要

BOEMRE published in August a report evaluating how climate change may affect the environmental conditions measured and used in mathematical modeling for oil spill trajectory analysis in the Arctic region. The study is available at http://bit.ly/pPrtK7. The two-year study included a literature review of the most recent oceano-graphic information on the Arctic, particularly with respect to the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, and focused on the effects of climate change on sea ice, circulation, river discharge and other environmental conditions in the Alaskan Arctic.