Caracterização física do estuário do rio Mojuim em São Caetano de Odivelas - PA

Abstract

The present study has as objective describe the hydrodynamics, hydrologic and morphological aspects, of estuary of Mojuim River, it is localized in São Caetano de Odivelas city –PA (Salgado Paraense),it is analyzing the variations that happen according sea cycle seasonality (rain regime).The hydrologic and hydrodynamics data was collected in two seasonal period in 2014:March,it corresponds to rainy period (~500 mm)and September, it corresponds to dry period (~100 mm),both during tide of syzygy. The bathymetric survey happened only in the rainy period and it was realized with an echo sounder in a sampling grid with 116 spaced cross profile of 200m.In the estuarine channel,it was defined a section where it was realized profiles of strength measurement and current intensity and output, with ADCP, and in three fixed stations,right bank (RB), center(C),and left bank (LB)it was realized collections of conductivity and turbidity with a CDT and an OBS, in the water column. The pattern of tidal and the salinity they were also obtained with a pressure sensor and conductivity fixed in the LB during 56 days in the rainy period and 57 days in dry ones. The estuarine is shallow (4,5 m of average depth) and it is restrained by a regime of semidiurnal macrotidals. During a tidal cycle the salinity increases in the floods and decreases in the ebb tide in both seasonal periods. Turbidity increases in the floods and it decreases in the ebb tide of the rain period and the value measured in the center (C) is double found in the banks. In the dry period, the salinity was higher to rainy period (average 20 and 8, respectively) .This estuarine presents well mixed; it is vertically homogeneous in the rainy period and highly stratified in the dry. The flood flows occur predominantly at the center section, while the ebb flows predominate in the RB, in the two situations the highest intensity of the current occurs in the rainy season. The estuary is an importer in the two periods, however, more entering in the rainy period (resulting transport of 95,87 m³/s) .These data correspond to the first information on the hydrological and hydrodynamics characteristics of the estuary and they can support further studies in the region.