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: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2020
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yenisei River; khatanga
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-781-2020; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00051942; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00051598/os-16-781-2020.pdf; https://os.copernicus.org/articles/16/781/2020/os-16-781-2020.pdf

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...