Identifying marine pollutant sources is essential in order to assess, contain
and minimize their risk. We propose a Lagrangian Particle Tracking algorithm
(LPT) to study the transport of passive tracers continuously released from fixed
and moving sources and to identify their source in a backward mode. The LPT
is designed to operate with uncertain flow fi elds, described by an ensemble of
realizations of the sea currents. Starting from a region of high probability, re-
verse tracking is used to generate inverse maps. A probability-weighted distance between the resulting inverse maps and the source trajectory is then minimized to identify the likely source of pollution. We conduct realistic simulations to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in the Mediterranean Sea using ocean data available from Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring
Services. Passive tracers are released along the path of a ship and propagated with an ensemble of flow fi elds forward in time to generate a probability map, which is then used for the inverse problem of source identi fication. Our experiments suggest that the algorithm is able to efficiently capture the release time and source, with some test cases successfully pinpointing the release time and source up to two weeks back in time.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:kaust.edu.sa/oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/662684 |
| Date | 03 1900 |
| Creators | Hammoud, Mohamad Abed ElRahman |
| Contributors | Knio, Omar, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, Hoteit, Ibrahim, Im, Hong G. |
| Source Sets | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | 2021-04-27, At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis will become available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2021-04-27. |
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