Spring Warming of the Eastern Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal from Buoy Data
- 7 August 2002
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 29 (15), 24-1-24-4
- https://doi.org/10.1029/2002gl015340
Abstract
Observations from moored buoys during spring of 1998–2000 suggest that the warming of the mixed layer (∼20 m deep) of the north Indian Ocean warm pool is a response to net surface heat flux Qnet (∼100 W m−2) minus penetrative solar radiation Qpen (∼45 W m−2). A residual cooling due to vertical mixing and advection is indirectly estimated to be about 25 W m−2. The rate of warming due to typical values of Qnet minus Qpen is not very sensitive to the depth of the mixed layer if it lies between 10 m and 30 m.Keywords
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