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Numerical Integration and Interpolation in Marine Pollutant Transport Modelling

Abstract

Transport modelling of oil and other chemicals in the ocean relies on information on curret velocity as a function of position and time, v(x, t). These data will in many cases be supplied from an ocean circulation model, which produces a velocity field with vectors given at discrete points on a four-dimensional grid. If we consider for simplicity a passive tracer that moves with the water velocity at its position, then calculating the trajectory of the tracer, x(t), starting from a position x_0 when t = 0, can be done by numerically integrating the differential equation x = v(x, t), with the initial condition x(t = 0) = x0.

Category

Academic chapter

Language

English

Author(s)

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Ocean / Climate and Environment
  • SINTEF Ocean / Fisheries and New Biomarine Industry
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Year

2017

Publisher

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Book

AMOP Technical Seminar on Environmental Contamination and Response - 2008 - 2017

ISBN

9780660048512

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