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

Table 2

Errors and ratios in time of the characteristic finite difference scheme (CFD).

	40	50	60	70	80
	3.0017E-01	2.4370E-01	2.0544E-01	1.7835E-01	1.5751E-01
Ratio	-	0.93394	0.93686	0.91736	0.93042
	5.5471E-02	4.5245E-02	3.8185E-02	3.3043E-02	2.9150E-02
Ratio	-	0.91318	0.93054	0.93812	0.93893