Dispersion processes in coastal waters - Some outstanding practical issues for monitoring and modelling

Abstract

This paper highlights on the issues of dispersion processes in coastal waters like space-time description of field parameters, limitation of physical models, limitations of numerical formulations, Eulerian-Lagrangian transformations, shear-induced diffusion, breaking of pollutant patch and its shore hugging, seasonal variabilities, physical limits of sampling, and concludes on remedial suggestions like examining problems of site specificity