Observations of eddy-modulated turbulent mixing in the southern Bay of Bengal

CA Luecke, HW Wijesekera, E Jarosz… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Long-term measurements of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate (ε), and turbulent
temperature variance dissipation rate (χ T) in the thermocline, along with currents …

Turbulent dissipation rates across the Summer Monsoon Current

AA Nayak, VP N, JV George - Ocean Dynamics, 2022 - Springer
During the summer monsoon, the southern Bay of Bengal (BoB) hosts a cyclonic circulation
known as Sri Lanka Dome (SLD) and the swift Summer Monsoon Current (SMC), which …

Seasonality and buoyancy suppression of turbulence in the Bay of Bengal

R Thakur, EL Shroyer, R Govindarajan… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A yearlong record from moored current, temperature, conductivity, and four mixing meters (χ
pods) in the northernmost international waters of the Bay of Bengal quantifies upper‐ocean …

Ocean turbulence and mixing around Sri Lanka and in adjacent waters of the northern Bay of Bengal

SUP Jinadasa, I Lozovatsky, J Planella-Morató… - Oceanography, 2016 - JSTOR
As a part of the US Air-Sea Interactions Regional Initiative, the first extensive set of turbulent
kinetic energy dissipation rate (ε) measurements from microstructure profilers were obtained …

Monsoon mixing cycles in the Bay of Bengal: A year-long subsurface mixing record

SJ Warner, J Becherer, K Pujiana, EL Shroyer… - Oceanography, 2016 - JSTOR
Based on the first year-long record of mixing collected in the eastern central Bay of Bengal,
we quantify the role that subsurface turbulent heat fluxes play in upper-ocean cooling …

Observational estimates of turbulent mixing in the southeast Indian Ocean

A Cyriac, HE Phillips, NL Bindoff… - Journal of Physical …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
This study investigates the spatiotemporal variability of turbulent mixing in the eastern south
Indian Ocean using a collection of data from electromagnetic autonomous profiling explorer …

[HTML][HTML] Intraseasonal variability of upper-ocean heat fluxes in the central bay of bengal

HW Wijesekera, WJ Teague, DW Wang… - Journal of Physical …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
Upper-ocean heat content and heat fluxes of 10–60-day intraseasonal oscillations (ISOs)
were examined using high-resolution currents and hydrographic fields measured at five …

Dynamics of intraseasonal oscillations in the Bay of Bengal during summer monsoons captured by mooring observations

A Pirro, HW Wijesekera, E Jarosz… - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2020 - Elsevier
The intraseasonal variabilities of current and temperature in the southern Bay of Bengal
(BoB) were examined using in-situ observations collected in the upper 500 m of the water …

Impact of freshwater plumes on intraseasonal upper ocean variability in the Bay of Bengal

CJ Prend, H Seo, RA Weller, JT Farrar - … Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations (MISO) is known to be strongly coupled to
the upper ocean variability in the Bay of Bengal (BoB). Here, we analyze high-resolution …

Eddies and currents in the Bay of Bengal during summer monsoons

A Pirro, HJS Fernando, HW Wijesekera… - Deep Sea Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southwest Monsoon Current (SMC) in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) and prominent
eddies surrounding it, in particular, an anticyclonic eddy (AE) to the southeast and a cyclonic …