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Flushing characteristics of Amba river estuary, west coast of India

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Title Flushing characteristics of Amba river estuary, west coast of India
 
Creator Kumar, P K Dinesh
Sarma, R V
Josanto, V
 
Description 212-215
Tide dominated Amba river estuary was studied to evaluate its flushing characteristics. Although, spring tidal range of 3.4 m was observed at 40 km inland, the seawater component here at high tide was < 1%. The wet weather flushing time of 22 tidal cycles for neap, 6 to 7 tidal cycles for spring and dry weather flushing time of 45 tidal cycles for neap, 6 to 7 tidal cycles for spring based on modified tidal prism method indicated that the load retained in the estuary after infinite number of tidal cycles was 17 times and 33 times for neap during wet and dry weather conditions and 2 times the load introduced per tidal cycle for spring during both the weather conditions. The flushing times calculated by the classical tidal prism method were shorter than those obtained by the modified tidal prism method.
 
Date 2016-12-08T06:48:03Z
2016-12-08T06:48:03Z
1991-09
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/38293
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.20(3) [September 1991]