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Estuarine oceanography of the Vembanad lake Part II : the region between Cochin and Azhikode

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Title Estuarine oceanography of the Vembanad lake
Part II : the region between Cochin and Azhikode
 
Creator Ramamirtham, C P
Muthusamy, S
 
Subject Oceanography
 
Description Some aspects of the estuarine oceanography of the Vembanad lake between
Cochin and Azhikode are discussed. Since this part of the lake is in confluence
with the Arabian sea at its southern and northern ends, at Cochin and
Azhikode, its circulation pattern and other characteristics are different from what
they are between Cochin and Vaikom. Because of the position of these two
mouths, which are exposed to the same tidal cycles, the high tides and low tides
each producing two opposite flows respectively converge and diverge leaving a
null zone, almost free of the tidal effect, around Kadakara, situated midway
between Cochin and Azhikode. Another significant feature of this pairt of the
estuary is an extreme low-salinity i«gion between Karthedam and Cherai during
monsoon and early postmonsoon, brought about by the deflected waiters of the
Periyar, opening at the northern end of the estuary.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1986
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/384/1/Article_11.pdf
Ramamirtham, C P and Muthusamy, S (1986) Estuarine oceanography of the Vembanad lake Part II : the region between Cochin and Azhikode. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 33 (2). pp. 218-224.