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Ecological Processes
Fig. 4 | Ecological Processes

Fig. 4

From: Short-term desalination of Pulicat lagoon (Southeast India) due to the 2015 extreme flood event: insights from Land-Ocean Interactions in Coastal Zone (LOICZ) models

Fig. 4

Spatial models of post-monsoonal surface salinity distribution of Pulicat lagoon for multiple years obtained by interpolating the available data from different locations within the lagoon. Sources for these temporal datasets are (a) Padma and Periakali (1999); (b) IOM, No Impact Zone Studies 2003; (c) and (d) Harini Santhanam 2009; (e) Reddy et al. 2012 and (f) from the present investigation, The years 1996 (a) and 2015 (f) represent periods of highest dilution due to the northeast monsoonal rainfall, with noticeably higher persistence of the freshwater conditions in 1996 than 2015. Low dilution in salinities occurred in the period 2005–2007

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