naa a22 4500 51075189X CHVBK 20180411083107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11270-013-1538-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11270-013-1538-9 Simulation of Trajectories of Tar Ball Transport to the Goa Coast [Elektronische Daten] [V. Suneel, P. Vethamony, K. Kumar, M. Babu, K. Prasad] Arrival of tar balls to the Goa coast during pre- and southwest monsoon seasons has been a regular phenomenon in the past few years. In one such event, we observed tar ball deposits along the Goa coast during August 2010, April 2011 and May 2011 when no oil spill was reported in the Arabian Sea (AS). The only source for the formation of tar balls could be the spill/tanker-wash from the tankers passing through the international tanker routes across the AS. Assuming this, an attempt has been made to simulate surface winds, currents and tar ball trajectories for August 2010 using hydrodynamics and particle tracking models. Tar ball particles were released numerically at eight locations in the AS, and five of them reached the Goa coast, matching reasonably well with the observations. The present study confirms our view that the source of these tar balls is the accidental spills or tanker-wash along the international oil tanker route in the AS. A review of the global scenario of tar ball study is also presented in the Introduction. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Tar-ball transport nationallicence Goa coast nationallicence Hydrodynamics nationallicence Particle tracking nationallicence Tar ball trajectories nationallicence International oil tanker route nationallicence Suneel V. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut Vethamony P. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut Kumar K. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut Babu M. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut Prasad K. Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, 530 003, Visakhapatnam, India aut Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1538-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11270-013-1538-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Suneel V. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vethamony P. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kumar K. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Babu M. CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, 403004, Dona Paula, Goa, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prasad K. Department of Meteorology and Oceanography, Andhra University, 530 003, Visakhapatnam, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Springer Netherlands 224/5(2013-05-01), 1-11 0049-6979 224:5<1 2013 224 11270 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer