Marine radionuclide transport modelling: Recent developments, problems and challenges

R Periáñez, R Bezhenar, I Brovchenko, C Duffa… - … Modelling & Software, 2019 - Elsevier
A brief overview of the current status on the subject of numerical modelling of radionuclide
transport in the marine environment is given: main transport processes occurring in the sea …

[HTML][HTML] Potential sources of marine plastic from survey beaches in the Arctic and Northeast Atlantic

KO Strand, M Huserbråten, KF Dagestad… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastic litter is accumulating on pristine northern European beaches, including the European
Arctic, and questions remain about the exact origins and sources. Here we investigate …

Impact of flow field resolution on produced water transport in Lagrangian and Eulerian models

R Nepstad, T Nordam, IH Ellingsen, L Eisenhauer… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
During offshore petroleum production, large volumes of produced water are continuously
discharged. The environmental impact from such discharges is typically assessed with …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term environmental risks of the Baltic Sea's" memory effect" revealed by ocean modeling and observation of reprocessing-derived radiotracers

M Lin, J She, J Murawski, X Hou, J Qiao - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Although previous research indicated that the Baltic Sea has a strong" memory effect" for
trapping pollutants/nutrients, the associated environmental risks are not well understood due …

Short-term predictions of oceanic drift

KH Christensen, Ø Breivik, KF Dagestad, J Röhrs… - Oceanography, 2018 - JSTOR
We discuss oceanic drift as relevant to applications in operational oceanography using
examples from recent field experiments to highlight some of the challenges in modeling drift …

Resolution dependency of sinking Lagrangian particles in ocean general circulation models

PD Nooteboom, P Delandmeter, E van Sebille, PK Bijl… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Any type of non-buoyant material in the ocean is transported horizontally by currents during
its sinking journey. This lateral transport can be far from negligible for small sinking …

[HTML][HTML] North sea produced water PAH exposure and uptake in early life stages of Atlantic Cod

R Nepstad, BH Hansen, J Skancke - Marine Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Produced water discharges from offshore oil and gas platforms represent a significant
source of petroleum components such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) released …

Dissolved Radiotracers and Numerical Modeling in North European Continental Shelf Dispersion Studies (1982–2016): Databases, Methods and Applications

P Bailly du Bois, F Dumas, C Voiseux, M Morillon… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Significant amounts of anthropogenic radionuclides were introduced in ocean waters
following nuclear atmospheric tests and development of the nuclear industry. Dispersion of …

[HTML][HTML] Marine and atmospheric transport modeling supporting nuclear preparedness in Norway: Recent achievements and remaining challenges

M Simonsen, E Berge, H Klein, J Brown… - Science of The Total …, 2025 - Elsevier
Numerical transport models are important tools for nuclear emergency decision makers in
that they rapidly provide early predictions of dispersion of released radionuclides, which is …

Coastal transport of river-discharged radionuclides: Impact of speciation and transformation processes in numerical model simulations

M Simonsen, OC Lind, Ø Saetra, PE Isachsen… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Following a potential nuclear accident, river run-off may potentially become a significant
source of radionuclide contamination to the coastal marine environment. In the present work …