Author(s): Peter A. Davies; Mario J. V. Neves
Linked Author(s): Peter A. Davies
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Abstract: Remote sensing investigations can provide useful information with which to compare the results of analytical or semi-empirical predictive models, though the comparisons can often be made only with surface data. Thermal marine outfalls from coastal power stations provide a useful test laboratory for comparing remotely-sensed surface temperature data with analytical predictions. Such data are presented here, in order to illustrate the local departures of the predicted from the observed temperatures at a number of sites. Attempts to utilise the remotely-sensed data for estimating the integrated spatial extent of pollution (rather than the localised anomalies) are shown to be successful for the sites in question.
Year: 1997