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Salinity Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform

Ganga and Brahmaputra river plumes time series

Users can generate their own SSS time series (satellite and In situ) on a given spatial domain around the Ganga or Brahmaputra river mouths, or at a virtual buoy (point) anywhere in the BoB using the plot interface

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

Fig 1: Indian ocean map showing the bay of Bengal where the discharge of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river has been estimated from altimeter data (Papa et al., 2012). The box where the satellite and model SSS is averaged at the mouth is shown in red.
Fig 2: Time serie of the altimeter derived river discharge (Papa et al, 2012).
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.