The following figures show the initial (blue) and final (brown) forecast positions of sediment plumes. The plumes are released at a depth of 80m or 140m, at three potential locations and at different times during day time in California. These flow map computations are for a time duration of 3 or 12 hours (rows) for the forecasts of 03 March 2018 to 04 March 2018. The release time (columns) shifts in 1 hour intervals. The flow maps were calculated by a PDE based approach, using 5th order spatial and 3rd order temporal schemes, and a novel composition based approach.
As a reminder, 12:00Z = 04:00 PST, i.e., California local time is 8 hours behind Zulu time.
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