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

Table 1

The symbols in the pollutant transport model (1).

Symbol	Meaning
	Pollutant concentration
	Convection velocity in the east-west direction
	Convection velocity in the north-south direction
	Convection velocity in vertical direction
	Horizontal diffusion coefficient
	Vertical diffusion coefficient
	The source and sink terms of pollutants