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Scientific Support and Monitoring for Marine Pollution Emergency Response

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The plan of year 2014 is to run the oil spill and chemical dispersion simulation modeling software, based on the well-known Applied Science Associates product, with the related information on water region of Taiwan; and to provide the contaminants track for the right commands in urgent situations. After receiving emergency marine Pollution Bulletin from the EPA, the analysis reports are established within the specified time -24hours a day –in order to provide EPA as a reference during project execution. Another application is to use OSD (Oil Spill Detection system) developed by the Norway MIROS, to install into radar for detecting the oil spill, waves, currents system during sudden spill event. It also instantly detects the mobility of oil pollution, waves, currents, and wind speed/direction observations. With the detection range of 3-8 km, this system not only can instantly displays the locations of the oil spills, but also can predict the speed and direction of short-term oil spill drift. The real-time data detected by OSD system can be used as input parameters of the OILmap software as well as CHEMmap software for enhancing the accuracy of the oil pollution and chemical pollution dispersion models. Two major goals of these results are to integrate these applications for 「MARINE POLLUTION PREVENTION SYSTEM」 as well as to provide a scientific foundation for EPA to establish programs of numerical simulation on emergency contamination in the ocean. During the project, with the implementations of real-time continuous monitoring systems on water quality in marine area or even in occurred significant pollution regions, we can track the changes of seawater quality. If a pollution incident occurs, the warning signals will be informed automatically and the acquired observations from monitoring systems can be used to evaluate the trends of seawater at that moment. Not only this, the acquired information also provides us an important foundation for the development of marine pollution control strategies.
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Oil and Chemical;Response to Marine Pollution;OILmap;CHEMmap;Radar Oil Monitoring;Real-time Water Quality Monitoring
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