Title
Monitoring Systems and Numerical Models to Study Coastal Sites.
Abstract
The present work aims at illustrating how the joint use of monitoring data and numerical models can be beneficial in understanding coastal processes. In the first part, we show and discuss an annual dataset provided by a monitoring system installed in a vulnerable coastal basin located in Southern Italy, subjected to human and industrial pressures. The collected data have been processed and analysed to detect the temporal evolution of the most representative parameters of the inspected site and have been compared with recordings from previous years to investigate recursive trends. In the second part, to demonstrate to what extent such type of monitoring actions is necessary and useful, the same data have been used to calibrate and run a 3D hydrodynamic model. After this, a reliable circulation pattern in the basin has been reproduced. Successively, an oil pollution transport model has been added to the hydrodynamic model, with the aim to present the response of the basin to some hypothetical cases of oil spills, caused by a ship failure. It is evident that the profitable prediction of the hydrodynamic processes and the transport and dispersion of contaminants strictly depends on the quality and reliability of the input data as well as on the calibration made.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19071552
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
monitoring station,numerical modelling,current circulation,oil spilling
Oil spill,Oil pollution,Numerical models,Monitoring system,Petroleum engineering,Electronic engineering,Engineering,Structural basin
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
7.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Elvira Armenio100.34
Mouldi Ben Meftah200.68
Diana De Padova300.68
Francesca De Serio401.35
Michele Mossa502.03