Months-long Suppression of Subsurface Ocean Turbulence Caused by the Arrival of Riverine Discharge into the Northern Bay of Bengal following the South-West Monsoon

Ritabrata Thakur1, Emily L Shroyer2, Rama Govindarajan1, Johannes Becherer2, J. Thomas Farrar3, Robert A Weller4 and Jim Moum2, (1)Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru, India, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)WHOI, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)WHOI, Monument Beach, MA, United States