Short-term desalination of Pulicat lagoon (Southeast India) due to the 2015 extreme flood event: insights from Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) models

Short-term desalination of Pulicat lagoon (Southeast India) due to the 2015 extreme flood event: insights from Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) models

Abstract Introduction We investigated the magnitude and duration of desalination of Pulicat—a coastal lagoon ecosystem connected to the Bay of Bengal on the South-eastern coast of India—during the 2015 South India flood event which was a period of high-magnitude precipitation and riverine flooding....

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Main Authors: Harini Santhanam, Thulasiraman Natarajan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-03-01
Series:Ecological Processes
Subjects:
Pulicat lagoon
2015 South India floods
LOICZ model
Flow accumulation model
Bay of Bengal
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13717-018-0119-7

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