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Heat content variability in the tropical Indian Ocean during second pre-INDOEX campaign (boreal winter 1996-1997)

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Title Heat content variability in the tropical Indian Ocean during second pre-INDOEX campaign (boreal winter 1996-1997)
 
Creator Rao, E.P.R.
RameshBabu, V.
Rao, L.V.G.
 
Subject heat content
heat transfer
meteorological data
temperature profiles
surface temperature
heat budget
intertropical convergence zone
equatorial countercurrents
 
Description Surface meteorological data and upper ocean temperature profiles are obtained on-board ORV Sagar Kanya (cruise 120) during the second pre-INDOEX Campaign (December 1996-January 1997) for evaluating the north-south variability of surface heat fluxes and upper oceanic heat content. Heat content in upper 200 m decreased southward by 50 x 10 sup(8) Jm sup(-2) along the ship's track. There is a net heat loss on either side of the equator with a marginal gain at the equator. In the vicinity of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone around 8 degrees S where sea surface temperature is maximum, the heat content is conspicuously low, suggesting the divergence regime in the water column (0-200 m) due to a shear between southern equatorial and equatorial counter currents.
 
Date 2009-01-10T11:24:18Z
2009-01-10T11:24:18Z
1999
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Current Science, Vol.76; 1001-1004p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1804
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyright [1999]. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository.
 
Publisher Current Science Association, Bangalore, India