ASA in the News
2007
China MSA - December 13, 2007 South Korea Oil Spill ASA provides support to China MSA for monitoring recent South Korea oil spill. ASA's Xiongping Zhang provides support to China's Oil Spill Emergency Response Center--working on monitoring and forecasting spilled oils from South Korea Oil Spill accident. The Chinese government is very concerned with the latest oil pill that happened in South Korea on December 7, 2007. The oil tanker Hebei Spirit, riding at anchor 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of Seoul, was pierced by a crane-carrying barge, releasing 10,500 metric tons of crude oil into the sea. The oil came ashore along 300 kilometer stretch of shoreline on the country's west coast that hosts a number of fish farms and an active wild fishery. It has blackened beaches, coated birds in oily tar and cast a foul smell over a nature reserve. |
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The Oil Spill Emergency Response Center of China's Maritime Safety Administration made the connection with ASA and asked for support from ASA's Xiongping Zhang to predict the trajectory and fate of the spill right after the accident. ASA provided the forecasted result simulated with ASA's OILMAP modeling software with the connection to the COASTMAP real-time environmental data server (EDS). The figure (right) shows OILMAP's predicted spilled oils and an Envisat satellite image released by European Space Agency. MSA support planning was given added confidence when ASA's model results closely matched the actual fate of the spill. ASA also used OILMAP to run several stochastic simulations with the data in past twenty years for winds and currents and provided the results to China MSA. For more information, contact Dr. Xiongping Zhang at xp@asascience.com. | ||
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