Corsica oil spill, October – November 2018: fusion of modeling and observations
Svitlana Liubartseva¹, Malek Smaoui², Giovanni Coppini¹, Gabino Gonzalez², Rita Lecci¹, Ivan Federico¹
¹Fondazione CMCC - Centro EuroMediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, OPA Division - Ocean Predictions and
Applications, Lecce, Italy (svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it),
²REMPEC - Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response
Centre for the Mediterranean Sea, Valletta, Malta
In the early morning of October 7th2018, a Ro-Ro/passenger ship Ulysse, registered in Tunisia struck the hull of a Cyprus-based container ship Virginia, which had