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- Title
Coastal Water Properties and Hydrodynamic Processes in the Malacca Strait: Case Study Northeastern Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia.
- Authors
Koropitan, Alan Frendy; Barus, Ternala Alexander; Cordova, Muhammad Reza
- Abstract
Dynamic processes in the coastal waters play an important role in regulating the marine pollution distribution caused by riverine inputs and are relevant for coastal management. Here, the coastal water properties were investigated from field measurements and modeling hydrodynamic processes in the northeastern coast of Sumatra. The present study found that the river discharges affect a low salinity of 28–29 psu in the surface waters along near the coastal line. The river discharge might influence by strong La Niña with high rainfall in December 2010. However, the authors suggested that the effect of tidal mixing is stronger than the freshwater discharges, resulting in vertically well-mixed coastal waters in the region. The observed tidal range of 200 cm indicates a strong tidal mixing in the waters. The tidal elevation contributes more than 70% of the total measured sea elevation. The tidal current signal in which the flow pattern simulations show no significant differences among tide and wind-tide driven currents, is also dominant (77%).
- Subjects
SUMATRA (Indonesia); INDONESIA; TERRITORIAL waters; COASTAL zone management; TIDE-waters; TIDAL currents; LA Nina; MARINE pollution
- Publication
Journal of Ecological Engineering, 2021, Vol 22, Issue 11, p16
- ISSN
2299-8993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12911/22998993/142974