title: Peer Review #3 of "Effects of mesoscale eddies on behavior of an oil spill resulting from an accidental deepwater blowout in the Black Sea: an assessment of the environmental impacts (v0.2)"
abstract: Because of the environmental sensitivity of the Black Sea, as a semi-enclosed sea, any subsea oil spills can cause destructive impacts on the marine environment and beaches.Employing numerical modeling as a prediction tool is one of the most efficient methods to understand oil spill behavior under various environmental forces.In this regard, a coupled circulation/deepsea oil spill model has been applied to the Black Sea to address the behavior of the oil plume resulting from a representative hyp