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Surface meteorological conditions at benthic disturbance experiment site - INDEX area during austral winter 1997

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Title Surface meteorological conditions at benthic disturbance experiment site - INDEX area during austral winter 1997
 
Creator Suryanarayana, A.
Murty, V.S.N.
RameshBabu, V.
Beena, B.S.
 
Subject baseline studies
meteorological observations
surface temperature
heat budget
 
Description Benthic Disturbance Experiment surveys in the Central Indian Ocean Basin yielded baseline data on surface meteorological conditions during June and August, 1997 together with sea surface temperature (SST) and could data to estimate the air-sea heat fluxes and net surface heat gain. Maximum sunshine duration was 1 hour/day in June and 30 minutes/day in August. SST decreased from 28.2 degrees C in June to 25.8 degrees C in August. Southeasterly winds of speed 10 m/s during June contributed to a mean latent heat flux of 220 W/m sup(2), leading to net surface heat loss (100 W/m sup(2)) in June and near heat balance in August. Temporal variation of weather elements and the heat budget parameters showed fluctuations of period 10-13 days in June and 7-8 days in August. Owing to low sunshine duration (less than 1 hour/day) and light attenuation due to surface discharge of mining reject during austral winter, diminishing of light availability in the upper ocean is possible.
 
Date 2009-01-10T11:33:45Z
2009-01-10T11:33:45Z
1999
 
Type Conference Article
 
Identifier The Proceedings of the Third (1999) ISOPE Ocean Mining Symposium, Goa, India, 1999, eds. Chung, J.S.; Sharma, R. 203-207p.
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/1813
 
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 International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers, Cupertino, CA (USA)