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Circulation and watermass structure in the Central Arabian Sea during December 1982

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Title Circulation and watermass structure in the Central Arabian Sea during December 1982
 
Creator Sarma, Y.V.B.
Murty, V.S.N.
Rao, D.P.
Sastry, J.S.
 
Subject Oceanography and Limnology
thermohaline circulation
water
salinity gradients
equatorial circulation
monsoons
water masses
water circulation
ISW, Arabian Sea
 
Description After the cessation of the SW monsoon over Arabian Sea, the North Equatorial Current sets strongly and the low saline waters from the Bay of Bengal and the equatorial Indian Ocean penetrate into the Arabian Sea. This results in strong horizontal salinity gradients in the upper layers due to the mixing of the Persian Gulf, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea High Salinity Waters. The low salinity water is found to originate in the Andaman Sea and its thermohaline index has been derived as T = 18.6 degrees C and S = 34.5 x 10 -3 and can be traced on the 300 cl/t isanosteric surface. The mixing patterns in the central Arabian Sea have been studied by constructing the triangles of mixing. It is found that, the vertical mixing is dominant along the core of the Persian Gulf Watermass
 
Date 1995-08-13T10:01:23Z
2017-09-29T13:48:18Z
1995-08-13T10:01:23Z
2017-09-29T13:48:18Z
1986
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, vol.15; 1986; 234-240
0379-5136
http://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/6169
 
Language en
 
Relation Indian J Mar Sci
SCI
 
Publisher CSIR-NISCAIR