Preventive Methods for Coastal Protection

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVIII

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2. Towards Mitigation of Environmental Risks

   • Tarmo Soomere

   Pages 1-27

3. Modelling the Underlying Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Topography, Hydrography, Circulation and Modelling of the Baltic Sea

      • Kai Myrberg, Andreas Lehmann

      Pages 31-64

   3. Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics and Ocean Modelling

      • Tomas Torsvik

      Pages 65-100

   4. Studying the Baltic Sea Circulation with Eulerian Tracers

      • H. E. Markus Meier, Anders Höglund

      Pages 101-129

   5. European Semi-enclosed Seas: Basic Physical Processes and Their Numerical Modelling

      • Emil V. Stanev, Xi Lu

      Pages 131-179

   6. The Gulf of Finland, Its Hydrography and Circulation Dynamics

      • Kai Myrberg, Tarmo Soomere

      Pages 181-222

4. Lagrangian Dynamics and Inverse Problems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. TRACMASS—A Lagrangian Trajectory Model

      • Kristofer Döös, Joakim Kjellsson, Bror Jönsson

      Pages 225-249

   3. Evaluation and Tuning of Model Trajectories and Spreading Rates in the Baltic Sea Using Surface Drifter Observations

      • Joakim Kjellsson, Kristofer Döös, Tarmo Soomere

      Pages 251-281

   4. Statistics of Lagrangian Transport Reveals Hidden Features of Velocity Fields

      • Tarmo Soomere

      Pages 283-318

   5. Applications of the Inverse Problem of Pollution Propagation

      • Tarmo Soomere

      Pages 319-366

   6. Applications of an Oil Drift and Fate Model for Fairway Design

      • Jens Murawski, Jacob Woge Nielsen

      Pages 367-415

5. Back Matter

   Pages 417-442

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The aim of the book is to present for non-specialist researchers as well as for experts a comprehensive overview of the background, key ideas, basic methods, implementation details and a selection of solutions offered by a novel technology for the optimisation of the location of dangerous offshore activities in terms of environmental criteria, as developed in the course of the BalticWay project.   The book consists of two parts. The first part introduces the basic principles of ocean modeling and depicts the long way from the generic principles to the practical modeling of oil spills and of the propagation of other adverse impacts. The second part focuses on the techniques for solving the inverse problem of the quantification of offshore areas with respect to their potential to serve as a source of environmental danger to vulnerable regions (such as spawning, nursing or also tourist areas).   The chapters are written in a tutorial style; they are mostly self-contained and understandable for non-specialist researchers and students. They are carefully peer-reviewed by international experts. The goal was to produce a book that highlights all key steps, methods, models and data sets it is necessary to combine in order to produce a practically usable technology and/or decision support system for a particular sea region. Thus the book is useful not only as a description and a manual of this particular technology but also as a roadmap highlighting the complicated technical issues of ocean modeling for practical purposes. It describes the approaches taken by the authors in an understandable way and thus is useful for educational purposes, such as a course in industrially and environmentally relevant applications of ocean modeling. ​

• Environmental engineering
• Inverse methods in geosciences
• Ocean modeling
• Pollution control
• Risk analysis

• Inst. Cybernetics, Laboratory of Wave Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

  Tarmo Soomere, Ewald Quak

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