Modelling spatial dispersion of contaminants from shipping lanes in the Baltic Sea
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2021

Major sources of pollution from shipping to marine environments are antifouling paint residues and discharges of bilge, black, grey and ballast water and scrubber discharge water. The dispersion of copper, zinc, naphthalene, pyrene, and dibromochloromethane have been studied using the Ship Traffic Emission Assessment Model, the General Estuarine Transport Model, and the Eulerian tracer transport model in the Baltic Sea in 2012. Annual loads of the contaminants ranged from 10-2 tons for pyrene to 100 s of tons for copper. The dispersion of the contaminants is determined by the surface kinetic energy and vertical stratification at the location of the discharge. The elevated concentration of the contaminants at the surface persists for about two-days and the contaminants are dispersed over the spatial scale of 10-60 km. The Danish Sounds, the southwestern Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland are under the heaviest pressure of shipborne contaminants in the Baltic Sea.

Baltic Sea

Ship pollution

Water circulation

Contaminant dispersion

Ship waste

Vertical mixing

Författare

Ilja Maljutenko

Tallinns tekniska universitet (TalTech)

Ida-Maja Hassellöv

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Maritima studier

Martin Eriksson

Chalmers, Göteborgs centrum för hållbar utveckling

Erik Ytreberg

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Maritima studier

Daniel Yngsell

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Maritima studier

Lasse Johansson

Finnish Meteorological Institute

Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen

Finnish Meteorological Institute

Mariliis Kouts

Tallinns tekniska universitet (TalTech)

Mari-Liis Kasemets

Tallinns tekniska universitet (TalTech)

Jana Moldanova

IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet

Kerstin Magnusson

IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet

Urmas Raudsepp

Tallinns tekniska universitet (TalTech)

Marine Pollution Bulletin

0025-326X (ISSN) 1879-3363 (eISSN)

Vol. 173 112985

Evaluation, control and Mitigation of the EnviRonmental impacts of shippinG Emissions (EMERGE)

Europeiska kommissionen (EU) (EC/H2020/874990), 2020-02-01 -- 2024-01-31.

Ämneskategorier

Meteorologi och atmosfärforskning

Vattenteknik

Oceanografi, hydrologi, vattenresurser

DOI

10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112985

PubMed

34598094

Mer information

Senast uppdaterat

2022-02-25