Surface Wind Maps for the Western Indian Ocean from August 1975 to October 1976.
Abstract
The interaction between ocean and atmosphere is particularly pronounced in the Arabian Sea and along its boundaries. The low-level atmospheric jet over East Africa and the Somali Current with its adjacent upwelling areas are prime examples of coupled air-sea phenomena. The large signals and the annual periodicity of these processes make them particularly attractive to the geophysical researchers, especially to oceanographers and meteorologists. As part of studying the influence of atmospheric motions on oceanic motions in the western Indian Ocean, maps describing the surface wind field for that area have been prepared at the University of Miami for a period of fourteen and a half months (mid-August 1975 to October 1976). The surface wind description given by these maps is more suitable for concurrent oceanographic studies than monthly mean winds obtained from climatological atlases: year-to-year variations and high horizontal resolution, which are averaged out in the atlas information, are retained on our maps.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA047305
Entities
People
- Jose-fernandez Partagas
- Walter Duing
Organizations
- Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science