Understanding Dispersion in the Bay of Bengal: A Multi-Drifter Approach to Estimate Velocity Gradients

Sebastian Essink1, Amala Mahadevan2, Verena Hormann3 and Luca Raffaele Centurioni3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States