Year-to-year variability of oil pollution along the Eastern Arabian Sea: The impact of COVID-19 imposed lock-downs

This study investigated the year-to-year variability in the occurrence, abundance and sources of oil spills in the Eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) using sentinel-1 imagery and identified the potential oil spills vulnerable zones. The four consecutive year's data acquired from 2017 to 2020 (March–May) reveal three oil spill hot spot zones. The ship-based oil spills were dominant over zone's-1 (off Gujarat) and 3 (off Karnataka and Kerala), and the oil field based over zone-2 (off Maharashtra). The abundance of oil spills was significantly low in zone-1, only 14.30km² (1.2%) during lock-down due to the covid-19 pandemic. Whereas, the year-to-year oil spills over zone's 2 and 3 are not significantly varied (170.29 km² and 195.01 km²), further suggesting the influence of oil exploration and international tanker traffic are in operation during the lock-down. This study further recommends that manual clustering is the best method to study the distribution of unknown oil spills.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113356
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X22000388
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• Authors:
  • Trinadha Rao, V
  • Suneel, V
  • Raajvanshi, Istuti
  • Alex, M J
  • Thomas, Antony P
• Publication Date: 2022-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Maps; References;
• Pagination: 113356
• Serial:
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Volume: 175
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0025-326
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0025326X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cluster analysis; COVID-19; Oil spills; Pollution; Travel restrictions
• Geographic Terms: Arabian Sea
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Security and Emergencies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01863884
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 16 2022 11:36AM