《Areas of the global major river plumes》.pdfVIP

ActaOcean01．Sin．，2013，V01．32，No．1，P79—88 DOI：10．1007／s13131-013—0269—5 http：／／www．hyxb．org．cn E-mail：hyxbe@263．net Areasofthe river globalmajorplumes KANG Yanl一，PANDelul一，BAIYan2，HE Xianqian92，CHENXiaoyanl，2 CHEN Arthur3，WANG Chen—Tung Difen92 1 ofEarth 310027，China DepartmentSciences，ZhejiangUniversity,Hangzhou 2State ofSatelliteOceanEnvironment Instituteof KeyLaboratory Dynamics，SecondOceanography, StateOceanic 310012，China Administration．Hangzhou 3InstituteofMarine and SunYat—sen 804，China GeologyChemistry,NationalUniversity,Kaohsiung，Taiwan Received1 18 2012 April2012；acceptedSeptember @TheChinese and Berlin 2013 SocietyofOceanographySpringer—VeflagHeidelberg Abstract River arethe wherethemostintenseriver—sea．1andinteraction arechar． plumes regions occurs。andthey acterized material and totheir bycomplex transportbiogeochemicalprocesses．However,duehighlydy- namic river areashavenot beendeterminedforusein studiesof nature，globalplume yet syntheric global on datafromtheNOAAWoridOcean salinity oceanography．Basedglobalclimatologicalmonthlyaveraged Arias contourof East South from 2009(WOA09)，and the and ChinaSeas monthlyaveragedsalinity maps the Marine the Chinese Arias。weextract areasof rivers a monthlyplume majorglobal usinggeographic information