A Study of the Transport of Marine Pollutants Using Adjoint Method of Data Assimilation with Method of Characteristics

Figure 5

Figures of the initial distribution inverted by the adjoint method of data assimilation with CFD and CDS.

(a) The given initial field

(b) The inversion result of the given initial field obtained by CFD with a 48 hours’ time step size

(c) The inversion result of the given initial field obtained by CDS with a 24 hours’ time step size