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‘Thermohaline front’ off the east coast of India and its generating mechanism

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Title ‘Thermohaline front’ off the east coast of India and its generating mechanism
 
Creator HareeshKumar, P.V.
Mathew, B.
RameshKumar, M.R.
Rao, A.R.
Jagadeesh, P.S.V.
Radhakrishnan, K.G.
Shyni, T.N.
 
Subject Coastal currents
El Nino phenomena
Monsoons
Surface temperature
 
Description Physical oceanography measurements reveal a strong salinity (0.18 psu km−1) and temperature (0.07 °C km−1) front off the east coast of India in December 1997. T–S diagrams suggest lateral mixing between the fresh water at the coast and the ambient warmer, saltier water. This front seems to be the result of southward advection of fresh and cool water, formed in the northern Bay of Bengal during the monsoon, by the East Indian Coastal Current, as suggested by the large-scale salinity structure in the SODA re-analysis and the anti-cyclonic gyre in the northwestern Bay of Bengal during winter. The data further reveals an offshore front in January, which appears to be the result of a meso-scale re-circulation around an eddy, bringing cold and freshwater from the northern Bay of Bengal further away from the shore. Our cruise data hence illustrates that very strong salinity fronts can appear in the Bay of Bengal after the monsoon, as a result of intense coastal circulation and stirring by eddies.
 
Date 2014-01-07T12:18:12Z
2014-01-07T12:18:12Z
2013
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ocean Dynamics, vol.63(11-12); 2013; 1175-1180
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4414
 
Language en
 
Rights An edited version of this paper was published by Springer. This paper is for R & D purpose and Copyright [2013] Springer.
 
Publisher Springer