Tidal variations in the sundarbans estuarine system, India

Journal of Earth System Science

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 899-933

  Chatterjee, Meenakshi ^a,b   Shankar, D ^c   Sen, G K ^b   Sanyal, P ^b   Sundar, D ^c   Michael, G S ^c   Chatterjee, Abhisek ^c   Amol, P ^c   Mukherjee, Debabrata ^b   Suprit, K ^c   Mukherjee, A ^c   Vijith, V ^c   Chatterjee, Siddhartha ^b,c   Basu, Anwesha ^b   Das, Madhumita ^b   Chakraborti, Saranya ^b   Kalla, Aravind ^c   Misra, Surja Kanta ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Soumya ^b,c   Mandal, Gopal ^b   Sarkar, Kankan ^b,c   more..

^a Basanti Devi College   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Hoogly; Oceanography; Platform tide; Stand of the tide; Sundarbans

Indexed keywords

ESTUARY; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HIGHSTAND; LOWSTAND; OCEAN TIDE; SEMIDIURNAL TIDE; TIDAL CYCLE; WATER LEVEL;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; MATLA ESTUARY; SUNDARBANS; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 84884959567     PISSN: 02534126     EISSN: 0973774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12040-013-0314-y     Document Type: Article

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