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Salinity Pilot-Mission Exploitation Platform

Mississippi river plumes

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

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

Fig 1: Gulf of Mexico map showing the location of the U.S. Geological Survey site (# 07374000) at Baton Rouge (red dot) where the discharge of the Mississippi 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 at Baton Rouge, LA.
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.