Crucial time of emergency monitoring for reliable numerical pollution source identification

• Published in: Water research (Oxford) Vol. 265; p. 122303
• Main Authors: Yang, Ruiyi, Jiang, Jiping, Pang, Tianrui, Yang, Zhonghua, Han, Feng, Li, Hailong, Wang, Hongjie, Zheng, Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2024
• Subjects: Chemical spill; Crucial time; Emergency monitoring data; Information entropy; Peclet number; Pollution source identification; Peclet number; Emergency monitoring data; Chemical spill; Crucial time; Information entropy; Pollution source identification

•Crucial time exists in the accumulation of monitoring data for Bayesian inversion.•Section number and location impact crucial time, but frequency and error level do not.•Relative crucial time determined by Peclet number and mainly controlled by dispersion.•Spatial structure of crucial time uncovere...