Test version of the on-line oil spill model for the North-Eastern Sakhalin Shelf “VOS-RT” started working since autumn 2000. The model is in free on-line access through Internet.

Work area: 51°10'N,142°40'E – 54°30'N, 144°50'E

General block-scheme of VOS-RT.

Maximum forecast period of the model is 68 hours from the current moment.

The paper “On-line Modeling Technique for the Oil Spill Fate as Applied to the North-Eastern Sakhalin Shelf (The First Internet Version)” describing VOS-RT model is available in CREAMS’2000 proceedings (in electronic version also).

The following steps for the work with model are:

• Creating of special e-mail with oil spill source parameters (by the two ways: Web-interface or manually)
• Sending of the e-mail to OilSpillRobot@hydromet.com
• Calculating the results by the model (it may take from 5 min to 1 hour) and sending back by E-mail with attached file (Microsoft Word 97 and ESRI ArcView 8.2 format)

• Graphical materials: area of North-Eastern Sakhalin with oil spill source, oil spill transport trajectories, shoreline impact places, spill forms by time
• Table materials: shoreline impact characteristics, area and thickness of spill, averaged forecast wind information, physical-chemical characteristics