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A new atlas of temperature and salinity for the North Indian Ocean

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Title A new atlas of temperature and salinity for the North Indian Ocean
 
Creator Chatterjee, A.
Shankar, D.
Shenoi, S.S.C.
Reddy, G.V.
Michael, G.S.
Ravichandran, M.
Gopalakrishna, V.V.
Rao, E.P.R.
UdayaBhaskar, T.V.S.
Sanjeevan, V.N.
 
Subject surface temperature
salinity
oceanographic atlases
 
Description The most used temperature and salinity climatology for the world ocean, including the Indian Ocean, is the World Ocean Atlas (WOA) because of the vast amount of data used in its preparation. The WOA climatology does not, however, include all the available hydrographic data from the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), leading to the potential for improvement if the data from this region are included to prepare a new climatology. We use all the data that went into the preparation of the WOA, but also add considerable data from Indian sources, to prepare new annual, seasonal, and monthly climatologies of temperature and salinity for the Indian Ocean. The addition of data improves the climatology considerably in the Indian EEZ, the differences between the new North Indian Ocean Atlas (NIOA) and WOA being most significant in the Bay of Bengal, where the patchiness seen in WOA, an artifact of the sparsity of data, was eliminated in NIOA. The significance of the new climatology is that it presents a more stable climatological value for the temperature and salinity fields in the Indian EEZ.
 
Date 2012-07-27T09:02:03Z
2012-07-27T09:02:03Z
2012
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Journal of Earth System Science, vol.121(3); 2012; 559-593
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4097
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Indian Academy of Sciences