Year-to-year variability of oil pollution along the Eastern Arabian Sea: The impact of COVID-19 imposed lock-downs.
Mar Pollut Bull
; 175: 113356, 2022 Feb.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1683416
ABSTRACT
This study investigated the year-to-year variability in the occurrence, abundance and sources of oil spills in the Eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) using sentinel-1 imagery and identified the potential oil spills vulnerable zones. The four consecutive year's data acquired from 2017 to 2020 (March-May) reveal three oil spill hot spot zones. The ship-based oil spills were dominant over zone's-1 (off Gujarat) and 3 (off Karnataka and Kerala), and the oil field based over zone-2 (off Maharashtra). The abundance of oil spills was significantly low in zone-1, only 14.30km2 (1.2%) during lock-down due to the covid-19 pandemic. Whereas, the year-to-year oil spills over zone's 2 and 3 are not significantly varied (170.29 km2 and 195.01 km2), further suggesting the influence of oil exploration and international tanker traffic are in operation during the lock-down. This study further recommends that manual clustering is the best method to study the distribution of unknown oil spills.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Petroleum Pollution
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Mar Pollut Bull
Year:
2022
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Article
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J.marpolbul.2022.113356
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