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Oil reaching the coast: Is Brazil on the route of international oceanic dumping?
Zacharias, Daniel Constantino; Crespo, Natália Machado; da Silva, Natália Pillar; da Rocha, Rosmeri Porfirio; Gama, Carine Malagolini; Ribeiro E Silva, Sergio B N; Harari, Joseph.
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  • Zacharias DC; Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique (LaMP), F-63000 Clermont Ferrand, France. Electronic address: danizach@gmail.com.
  • Crespo NM; Department of Atmospheric Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, V Holesovickách 747/2, 18 Prague, Czech Republic.
  • da Silva NP; Departamento de Ciências Atmosféricas, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, IAG/USP, Rua do Matão, 1226, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil.
  • da Rocha RP; Departamento de Ciências Atmosféricas, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, IAG/USP, Rua do Matão, 1226, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil.
  • Gama CM; Departamento de Ciências Atmosféricas, Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, IAG/USP, Rua do Matão, 1226, São Paulo, SP, 05508-090, Brazil.
  • Ribeiro E Silva SBN; Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal.
  • Harari J; Departamento de Oceanografia Física, Química e Geológica, Instituto Oceanográfico, Universidade de São Paulo, Praça do Oceanográfico, 191, São Paulo, SP, 05508-900, Brazil.
Mar Pollut Bull ; 196: 115624, 2023 Nov.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37871459
After the oil spill disaster occurred in 2019, various events of tar balls reaching the Brazilian coast and archipelagos have been reported. The hypothesis here is that the oil/waste dumped in international waters by ships on-route to Cape of Good Hope is reaching the Brazilian coast. On that account, 30-year probabilistic simulations were used to estimate the probability of dumped oil residue reaching the Brazilian coast. The simulations considered three Zones following the South Atlantic route. The results have shown that up to 28.5 % of large ships could dump oil on-route. Inside the Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone, the probability of dumped oil/waste reaching the coastline is about 62 % and quickly decreases for Dumping Zones 2 and 3. Equatorial and Northeast shores of Brazil are the most vulnerable to oceanic dumping when compared to other regions.
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Petroleum Pollution / Disasters Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Brasil Language: En Journal: Mar Pollut Bull Year: 2023 Document type: Article Country of publication: United kingdom
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Full text: 1 Collection: 01-internacional Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Petroleum Pollution / Disasters Country/Region as subject: America do sul / Brasil Language: En Journal: Mar Pollut Bull Year: 2023 Document type: Article Country of publication: United kingdom