Seasonal heat budget estimates of the upper layers in the central Arabian Sea

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  • RR RAO NOAA/AOML/PhOD 4301 Rickenbacker, Causeway, Miami, Florida 33149

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v39i3.3704

Abstract

The observed seasonal variability in the thermal structure of the topmost 200 m water column of the central Arabian Sea (Marsden Square No.066) is presented with the aid of all the available historic BT/XBT/Nansen cast data sets. The heat budget estimates of the water column are discussed in terms of net surface heat gain extracted from Hastenrath and Lamb (1979) and of heat storage rate derived from successive mean monthly vertical temperature profiles and divergence of heat derived as a residual term. The influence of seasonal 325 reversing monsoons on the observed seasonal variability of heat budget of the upper layers is highlighted.

 

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01-07-1988

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R. RAO, “Seasonal heat budget estimates of the upper layers in the central Arabian Sea”, MAUSAM, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 241–248, Jul. 1988.

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Vol. 39 No. 3 (1988): MAUSAM

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Research Papers

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