Intraseasonal response of mixed layer temperature and salinity in the Bay of Bengal to heat and freshwater flux

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Parampil, Sindu Raj ^a   Gera, Anitha ^b   Ravichandran, M ^b   Sengupta, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b INDIAN NATIONAL CENTRE FOR OCEAN INFORMATION SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ARGO FLOAT; ASIAN SUMMER MONSOONS; BAY OF BENGAL; FRESHWATER CONTENTS; FRESHWATER FLUXES; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LOCAL HEAT FLUX; LOCAL SURFACES; MIXED LAYER; MIXED LAYER TEMPERATURE; MONSOON RAINFALL; SALINITY VARIABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SUMMER MONSOON; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY;

HEAT FLUX;

ADVECTION; BUOY SYSTEM; HEAT FLUX; MIXED LAYER; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77953571921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005790     Document Type: Article

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