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TI Effect of river runoff on sea level from in-situ measurements and numerical models in the Bay of Biscay
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AF LAIZ, Irene
   FERRER, Luis
   PLOMARITIS, Theocharis A.
   CHARRIA, Guillaume
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:4;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PHYSED;
C1 Univ Cadiz, Fac Marine Sci & Environm, Dept Appl Phys, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
   AZTI Tecnalia, Div Marine Res, Pasaia 20110, Spain.
   Univ Cadiz, Fac Marine Sci & Environm, Dept Earth Sci, Puerto Real 11510, Spain.
   IFREMER, DYNECO Lab Phys Hydrodynam & Sedimentaire, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
C2 UNIV CADIZ, SPAIN
   AZTI, SPAIN
   UNIV CADIZ, SPAIN
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-ODE-DYNECO-PHYSED
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-europe
IF 2.19
TC 17
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00169/28070/26285.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Bay of Biscay;Sea level;Tide gauges;River discharge;ROMS modelling
AB Daily time series of in-situ tide gauge records and river runoff data were analysed to investigate the contribution of river discharge storm events to sea level in the Bay of Biscay. Three main river systems were considered for this study, representing cases of small (Nervión, 1900 km2), medium (Adour, 16880 km2) and large (Gironde, 84811 km2) watershed basins. Typical storms correspond to water discharge rates of 150, 700, and 1100 m3 s−1 from the Nervión, Adour, and Gironde rivers, respectively. The effect of these events on daily mean sea level was evaluated using two different approaches: (1) through the analysis of time series of tide gauges placed within the river mouths; and (2) through numerical simulations using the ROMS model (Regional Ocean Modeling System). The three selected tide gauges are located at Bilbao (Spain) for the Nervión river, Boucau-Bayonne (France) for the Adour river and Port-Bloc (France) for the Gironde river. River runoff extreme events were more notable at the two tide gauges located within the largest rivers, namely, Adour and Gironde, where approximately 13% and 53.6% of the pressure-adjusted sea-level variance was explained by those events. The results obtained from the ROMS simulations suggest that the main effect of river discharge storm events occurs as a response to the input of lower salinity water. This plume of overlaying less dense water would produce a sea-level increase around the river mouth and along the coast, suggesting the generation of a coastal density current through the balance between the Coriolis force and the cross-shore pressure gradient. The main area of influence of the selected river discharges was confined to the river mouth for the Nervión, but extended up to approximately 28 km (33 km) offshore for the Adour (Gironde) river, before turning northward to flow as a density current along the coast.
PY 2014
PD AUG
SO Deep-sea Research Part Ii-topical Studies In Oceanography
SN 0967-0645
PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd
VL 106
UT 000343345300005
BP 49
EP 67
DI 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.12.013
ID 28070
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