Influence of estuarine tidal mixing on structure and spatial scales of large river plumes

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Authors: Osadchiev, Alexander, Medvedev, Igor, Shchuka, Sergey, Kulikov, Mikhail, Spivak, Eduard, Pisareva, Maria, Semiletov, Igor
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; khatanga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-781-2020; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/16/781/2020/

The Yenisei and Khatanga rivers are among the largest estuarine rivers that inflow to the Arctic Ocean. Discharge of the Yenisei River is 1 order of magnitude larger than that of the Khatanga River. However, spatial scales of buoyant plumes formed by freshwater runoff from the Yenisei and Khatanga g...