title: Recovery of an estuary in the southwest coast of India from tsunami impacts.
abstract: Water quality in the Cochin Estuary, southwest coast of India during the tsunami attack was assessed and compared with the pre and post tsunami characteristics. From the results obtained, it is evident that a drastic change in hydrography has been inflicted by the energy transferred through the tsunami, which disturbed the entire estuarine embayment. However, the post tsunami water quality showed normal levels indicating that the region has recovered from the tsunami impacts.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa, India. lalucm@ncaor.org
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Laluraj
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kesavadas
authors.forename: K K
authors.initials: KK
authors.lastname: Balachandran
authors.forename: Vijay John
authors.initials: VJ
authors.lastname: Gerson
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shaiju
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Revichandran
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Joseph
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nair
mesh_terms: D004190:Disasters; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007194:India; D013696:Temperature; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*; D014881:Water Supply
chemical_list: D014867:Water