RS14A:
Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal IV Posters
RS14A:
Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal IV Posters
Ocean Circulation and Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal IV Posters
Session ID#: 23891
Session Description:
The Bay of Bengal is a unique semi-enclosed tropical ocean basin forced by and coupled with the summer/winter South Asian Monsoons and fresh water inputs from some of the largest rivers in the world. This session aims to bring investigators together to characterize the Bay of Bengal ocean circulation at a range of spatial and time scales. Scales of interest are: spatial scales spanning basin-scale circulation to fine-scale dynamics (fronts, mixing) and time scales from diurnal, intra-seasonal, seasonal, inter-annual to decadal. Using observations, modeling, and theory, we aim to synthesize our understanding the ocean’s role in air-sea interactions and the Monsoons. Topics of interest include upper ocean processes, air-sea interaction, boundary currents, freshwater dispersal, and mixing in the Bay of Bengal and exchange with the Arabian Sea. We encourage presentations that characterize the upper ocean structure and identify key processes that set the lateral and vertical temperature-salinity distribution over a range of length and time scales. Processes that influence bio-optical and biogeochemical property distributions are also of interest. We welcome studies that focus on the coupling of the atmosphere and ocean, e.g., tropical instabilities, intra-seasonal oscillations, as well as those that detail factors controlling sea surface temperature and air-sea fluxes.
Primary Chair: Amit Tandon, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Mechanical Engineering, Dartmouth, MA, United States
Co-chairs: P N Vinayachandran, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, Bangalore, India, Manikandan Mathur, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Aerospace Engineering, Chennai, India and Hemantha W Wijesekera, US Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
Moderators: Theresa Paluszkiewicz, Office Naval Research, Arlington, VA, United States and Amala Mahadevan, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons: Luc Rainville, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Harper L Simmons, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Index Terms:
4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4572 Upper ocean and mixed layer processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4805 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
9340 Indian Ocean [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Cross-Topics:
- AI - Air-Sea Interactions
- BN - Biogeochemistry and Nutrients
- PL - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Larger
- PS - Physical Oceanography: Mesoscale and Smaller
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Coupled Modelling of Intra-seasonal Oscillations in the Tropical Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal (305960)
Intraseasonal-to-semiannual variability of sea-surface height in the southern Bay of Bengal (310751)
Multi-Scale Variability of Biogeochemical Processes in the Bay of Bengal Using Profiling Floats (317687)
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