Impact of river runoff on seasonal sea level, Kelvin waves, and East India Coastal Current in the Bay of Bengal : A numerical study using ROMS

Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions

“…Evaporation plays a minor role with precipitation plus runoff minus evaporation [(P + R) -E] being positive throughout the year (19). Runoff is dominated by GBM discharge peaking at ~1 × 10 5 m 3 /s between August and September (20), approximately a month after peak precipitation over the surrounding landmass in July (21). Hence, precipitation and runoff are strongly coupled to salinity (Fig.…”

“…Within the N BoB, (north of 17°N), Ganges runoff alone yields close to 3 m/year of sea level equivalent (29). Regional ocean modeling indicates that the spatial and temporal variability in seasonal sea surface salinity, sea level anomalies, the organization and strength of the equatorward flowing EICC, and aspects of coastal Kelvin wave dynamics are not well replicated without including river runoff, highlighting the critical impact of runoff on BoB oceanography (20).…”

Volume and Heat Transport in the South China Sea and Maritime Continent at Present and the End of the 21st Century

“…ROMS is a free‐surface, three‐dimensional, terrain‐following, primitive equation ocean model (Shchepetkin & McWilliams, 2003, 2005) and widely used by the scientific community for a diverse range of applications over different regions (e.g., Blanke et al., 2002; Dey et al., 2020; Haidvogel et al., 2000; Liu et al., 2016; Peliz et al., 2003), including the SCS (Fan et al., 2014). ROMS solves the hydrostatic primitive equations for momentum using a split‐explicit time‐stepping scheme that requires coupling between barotropic (fast) and baroclinic (slow) modes.…”