Recent Publication: Variability of the Red River Plume in the Gulf of Tonkin as Revealed by Numerical Modeling and Clustering Analysis

Vietnamese and French researchers from LEGOS, LOG and VAST investigated the daily to interannual variability of the Red River plume in the Gulf of Tonkin using 6-year (2011-2016) high-resolution numerical simulations. Their results show that the temporal evolution of the plume surface coverage is correlated with runoff (with a lag), but that runoff alone cannot explain the variability of the river plume; other processes, such as winds and tides, are involved.
These results are published in Frontiers in Marine Science:

Reference: Nguyen-Duy T, Ayoub NK, Marsaleix P, Toublanc F, De Mey-Frémaux P, Piton V, Herrmann M, Duhaut T, Tran MC and Ngo-Duc T, 2021. Variability of the Red River Plume in the Gulf of Tonkin as Revealed by Numerical Modeling and Clustering Analysis. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:772139. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.772139, ⟨hal-03441704⟩

Contact: Nadia Ayoub (LEGOS), nadia.ayoubATuniv-tlse3.fr

Surface tracer concentrations in the Gulf of Tonkin
obtained using a K-means unsupervised
machine learning algorithm
(copyright N. Ayoub).

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