Fig. 1From: Short-term desalination of Pulicat lagoon (Southeast India) due to the 2015 extreme flood event: insights from Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) modelsPulicat lagoon (filled with cyan) is shown with regional topography derived using CARTOSAT DEM and the major water bodies (marked in blue) of the drainage basin. The river channels (Araniar, Kalangi and Swarnamukhi) are indicated with blue lines. Major dams are marked with black pointers (from Raju et al. 2006, Raju et al. 2013, Sprenger et al. 2015). Entrance of the lagoon into the Bay of Bengal is presently active only near the southern region of the lagoon (marked with a red star). The sampling locations used in the present study for surface salinity are denoted by black dotsBack to article page