Kuwaiti oil fires-Modeling revisited

Tahir Husain

doi:10.1016/1352-2310(94)90361-1

Kuwaiti oil fires-Modeling revisited

Tahir Husain^*

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King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

Just after the invasion of Kuwait, scientists began predictions on the environmental disaster due to threat by the Iraqi regime to blow out oil wells in the Kuwaiti oil fields. The findings with the speculations ranging from a nuclear winter to super-acid rain and global warming were presented in the World Climate Conference in Geneva in November 1990. Just before the war erupted in the middle of January 1991, a conference in London was called to discuss the potential risks to human life and ecological systems in case of blow out of oil fields. The scientists, using modeling techniques, raised the speculations about the global impact which, however, was discounted at a later stage. This paper presents an overview of the selected models used to assess the local, regional, and global impacts. The paper also highlights the model and data limitations and suggests future research directions to respond more effectively under emergency situations.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2211-2226
Number of pages	16
Journal	Atmospheric Environment
Volume	28
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/1352-2310(94)90361-1
State	Published - Jul 1994

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Funding Information:
take Into account complex terrain In order to study dispersion and to the air pollution futurr application the region. it IS equally to Intcnslf! the air quality and meteorological work in the Gulf region. More emphasis should gvcn to upper air mctcorological data collection the reglun. For more reliable prediction of the plume ma\cment. plume rise. etTect of sea-breeze conditions and conccntratlon estimates. it is proposed to develop an atmosphcrlc boundary layer model. The developed boundary la)rr model should linked with the air pollution model for the better of concentration .-I1 Al1~l~~lc~l~/t~lllc~~~l.~ The support of the Research Institute of King Fahd Unlbrrsity of Petroleum and Minerals IS gratefully acknowledged. The author wishes to acknowledge the support of the Meteorology and Environmental Protection Admlnlstratlon (MEPAl for this work under KFUPM,RI ProJect No. 24137.

Keywords

Air pollution forecast
Kuwaiti oil fire
diffusion modeling
global model

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General Environmental Science
Atmospheric Science

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Kuwaiti oil fires-Modeling revisited

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