Record Details

Residual fluxes of water, salt and suspended sediment in the Beypore Estuary

DRS at CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Residual fluxes of water, salt and suspended sediment in the Beypore Estuary
 
Creator AnilKumar, N.
Revichandran, C.
Sankaranarayanan, V.N.
Josanto, V.
 
Subject residual flow
water currents
salt flux
sediment transport
estuaries
 
Description The monthly trends of the residual fluxes of salt and water and the transportation of suspended sediments in the Beypore estuarine system, Kerala, India were examined. At the river mouth the water flux was directed seaward during the postmonsoon and monsoon season. During the premonsoon period the transport was upstream and the net transport was higher during May. Maximum flux of the suspended sediment was obtained during July (1220.97 mg/cm sup(2)/s) at the river mouth. High negative fluxes are obtained during premonsoon period with the highest value occurring during May (-381.31 mg/cm sup(2)/s) at river mouth. During the study period the annual sediment input and the net sediment transported towards the sea were estimated to be 8.8 x 10 sup(4) tons per year and 5.7 x 10 sup(4) tons/year respectively so that the annual entrapment of sediment was 3.1 x 10 sup(4) tons per year.
 
Date 2009-01-11T11:53:53Z
2009-01-11T11:53:53Z
1998
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, Vol.27; 157-162p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1910
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1998]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher NISCAIR, CSIR