Satellite-observed multi-scale variability of sea surface chlorophyll-a concentration along the south coast of the Sumatra-Java islands

T Xu, Z Wei, S Li, RD Susanto, N Radiarta, C Yuan… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The southern coast of Java is known as one of the most productive fishing grounds for tuna,
feeding by nutrient-rich water along the coast caused by the subsurface water upwelling …

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 …

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 …

Turbulence at the periphery of Sri Lanka dome

I Lozovatsky, A Pirro, E Jarosz, HW Wijesekera… - Deep Sea Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Measurements of kinetic energy dissipation rate ε and other oceanographic variables
(temperature, salinity, density, and current profiles) were conducted at 20 stations along a 90 …

Characteristics of Internal Tides from ECCO Salinity Estimates and Observations in the Bay of Bengal

B Subrahmanyam, VSN Murty, SB Hall - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Internal waves (IWs) are generated in all the oceans, and their amplitudes are large,
especially in regions that receive a large amount of freshwater from nearby rivers, which …

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 …

Eddy diffusivity in stratified ocean: a case study in Bay of Bengal

ID Lozovatsky, HJS Fernando, SUP Jinadasa… - Environmental Fluid …, 2023 - Springer
The eddy diffusivity in the ocean pycnocline KN= γ ε/N 2 is analyzed based on field
measurements of the turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) dissipation rate ε z and buoyancy …

Dynamics of counter wind current along the south Sri Lanka coast during the Southwest Monsoon

CH Wickramage, W Wang, K Arulananthan… - Ocean Dynamics, 2021 - Springer
Shipboard velocity profiles collected in July 2018 are used to study coastal current in the
south of Sri Lanka during the summer monsoon. The observations reveal that there is a …

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 …

Using drifter velocity measurements to assess and constrain coarse-Resolution Ocean models

M Zhao, RM Ponte, O Wang… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2021 - journals.ametsoc.org
Properly fitting ocean models to observations is crucial for improving model performance
and understanding ocean dynamics. Near-surface velocity measurements from the Global …