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    Seasonal spreading and transport of buoyant plumes in the shelf off Kochi, South west coast of India- A modeling approach

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    2019
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    Seena, G.
    Muraleedharan, K.R.
    Revichandran, C.
    AbdulAzeez, S.
    John, S.
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    We investigated the seasonal spreading and transport of buoyant plume in the shelf off Kochi using Finite Volume Community Ocean Model (FVCOM). The modelled river plume typically consisted of an offshore bulge and a coastal current. The spreading of the bulge extended up to a distance of 19 km from inlet during the summer monsoon to<10 km in the Spring inter-monsoon. The Kelvin number varied between 0.1 and 0.9 which revealed that the plume exhibited both the features of small and large scale plumes, resulting in a highly complicated plume pattern. During the southwest monsoon the plume fringe twisted towards the south, while during the northeast monsoon it twisted towards north according to the reversal of monsoonal winds. The fresh water transport with respect to coastal currents varied in accordance with seasonal river discharge such that the value peaked in the wet season and dropped in the dry season. During the non-realistic (no wind) condition the plume initiated barotropic and baroclinic flow, after which it was acted upon by earth’s rotation so that the plume propagated in the direction of Coriolis force (towards north), as geostrophic currents. The model run ‘with wind’ and ‘without wind’ condition revealed that in the shelf off Kochi the plume is transported in accordance with monsoonal winds/currents by nullifying the effect of earth’s rotation. The categorization of plume influenced area and realization of the direction of plume transport can be used for interpreting the dynamically and potentially active zones in the shelf off Kochi.
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    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-56103-9
    http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/8574
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