Salinity Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform

Congo River Plume

Users can generate their own SSS time series (satellite and In situ) on a given spatial domain around the Orinoco river mouth, or at a virtual buoy (point) using the plot interface

Users can also generate plots of the time series as shown in Fig 3 and 4 below at the Congo river mouth by selecting the satellite product in the menu below (the plots will update accordingly)

Fig 1: Eastern Tropical Atlantic map showing the location of the ORE-HYBAM gage in Brazzaville (red dot) where the discharge of the Congo river has been measured. The box where the satellite and model SSS is averaged at the mouth is shown in red.

Fig 2: Time serie of the river discharge measured at Brazzaville.

Fig 3: Time series of satellite and model SSS spatially averaged at the mouth (in the red box of Fig 1)

Fig 4: Time series of satellite/model SSS and river discharge scaled anomalies (obtained by subtracting the record mean value from individual value). Scale factors are indicated in the legend.