Author(s)

Amilcar E. Calzada¹, Iván Delgado¹, Carlos Ramos¹, Frank Pérez¹, Dailín Reyes¹, Dayana Carracedo¹, Alejandro Rodríguez¹, Dayron Chang¹, Javier Cabrales², Alexander Lobaina³

¹Center for Marine Meteorology, Meteorology Institute, Havana, Cuba.
²Center for Atmospheric Physics, Meteorology Institute, Havana, Cuba.
³Air Information System on Meteorology, The Cuban Company of Air Navigation, Havana, Cuba.

The version 2.1 of PETROMAR-3D model, created in the Center for Marine Meteorology of the Meteorology Institute of Cuba, is presented. This Lagrangian model has been designed to describe the physical processes of marine oil spills in the face of multiple scenarios of the marine environment. Although it is applicable to any part of the world, it is mainly designed for inter-American seas. The novelty has been to integrate the processes of drift and weathering into a model, with updated methods that incorporate 3D phenomena, a very favorable situation to achieve an operating system in Cuba and the region for the immediate and medium term. Python was chosen as the programming language because it has advanced libraries for numerical modeling, automation work and other useful tools for pre-and post-processing. By means of adapters, an important number of atmospheric, hydrodynamic and wave models have been considered to create the scenarios efficiently. The modular distribution in which the code has been created facilitates its use for other dispersion analysis and biophysical applications. Finally, a set of simple images are presented, aimed at informing decision-makers in order to mitigate the effects of the spill on the environment.

Oil Spill Modeling, Lagrangian Model, Inter-American Seas

Calzada, A. , Delgado, I. , Ramos, C. , Pérez, F. , Reyes, D. , Carracedo, D. , Rodríguez, A. , Chang, D. , Cabrales, J. and Lobaina, A. (2021) Lagrangian Model PETROMAR-3D to Describe Complex Processes in Marine Oil Spills. Open Journal of Marine Science, 11, 17-40. doi: 10.4236/ojms.2021.111002.