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Salinity Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform

Amazon & Orinoco river plumes

Users can generate their own SSS time series (satellite/In situ) on a given spatial domain around the Amazon and Orinoco river mouths, or at a virtual buoy (point) in that region using the plot interface

User can also generate plots of the time series as shown in Fig 3 and 4 below at the Amazon and Orinoco river mouth by selecting the satellite product in the menu below (the plots will update accordingly)

Amazon River Plume

Fig 1: North Western Tropical Atlantic map showing the location of the ORE-HYBAM gage in Obidos where the discharge of the Amazon river has been measured. The box where the satellite and model SSS is averaged at the mouth is shown in red.
Fig 2: Time serie of the river discharge measured at Obidos.
Fig 3: Time series of satellite and model SSS spatially averaged at the mouth (in the red box of Fig 1).
Fig 4: Time series of satellite/model SSS and river discharge scaled anomalies (obtained by subtracting the record mean value from individual value). Scale factors are indicated in the legend.

Orinoco River Plume

Fig 1: North Western Tropical Atlantic map showing the location of the ORE-HYBAM gage in Ciudad Bolivar where the discharge of the Orinoco river has been measured. The box where the satellite and model SSS is averaged at the mouth is shown in red.
Fig 2: Time serie of the river discharge measured at Ciudad Bolivar.
Fig 3: Time series of satellite and model SSS spatially averaged at the mouth (in the red box of Fig 1)
Fig 4: Time series of satellite/model SSS and river discharge scaled anomalies (obtained by subtracting the record mean value from individual value). Scale factors are indicated in the legend.