SST Control by Subsurface Mixing during Indian Ocean Monsoons

Abstract

We seek to understand the detailed evolution of heat and freshwater distributions in the Bay of Bengal, given large-scale gradients associated with forcing (e.g., large source of freshwater input, heat fluxes, and wind forcing) and small-scale mixing processes. Since sea surface temperature variations are broad spatially and vary over long time scales, we are using extended time series at a variety of locations to directly measure and assess SST modification by turbulent mixing over the broad expanse of international waters in the Bay of Bengal on diurnal to seasonal time scales.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA623418

Entities

People

  • E. Shroyer
  • James N. Moum

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Deployment
  • Heat Flux
  • Indian Ocean
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Mixing
  • Oceans
  • Sea Level
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Temperature
  • Thermoclines
  • Turbulence
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Universities
  • Wind Stress

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers