Pollutant dispersion in shallow costal water

Within recent years the conflict between the growing demand for energy and the need for environmental protection has been felt the hardest in coastal regions. This paper is primarily concerned with the predictive technique of pollutant dispersion in the shallow coastal water. The primary problem in mathematical modeling is an establishment of the important parameters which are tightly coupled with physical ambient characteristics. One of the most cumbersome but difficult problem in the so-called far field modeling is the issue of eddy diffusion. This paper will present new techniques and results obtained in the various areas of North-East Atlantic coast. The results include analysis of dye tracer, drogue and continuous time series current measurement with other concurrent physical oceanographic data. The theoretical backup and experimental verification will be discussed.