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    • BoBBLE: Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Its Impact on the South Asian Monsoon 

      Vinayachandran, P.N.; Matthews, A.J.; Kumar, K.V.; Sanchez-Franks, A.; Thushara, V.; George, J.; Vijith, V.; Webber, B.G.M.; Queste, B.Y.; Roy, R.; Sarkar, Amit; Baranowski, D.B.; Bhat, G.S.; Klingaman, N.P.; Peatman, S.C.; Parida, C.; Heywood, K.J.; Hall, R.; King, B.; Kent, E.C.; Nayak, A.A.; Neema, C.P.; Amol, P.; Lotliker, A.; Kankonkar, A.; Gracias, D.G.; Vernekar, S.; DeSouza, A.C.; Valluvan, G.; Pargaonkar, S.M.; Dinesh, K.; Giddings, J.; Joshi, M. (American Meteorological Society, 2018)
      The Bay of Bengal (BoB) plays a fundamental role in controlling the weather systems that make up the South Asian summer monsoon system. In particular, the southern BoB has cooler sea surface temperatures (SST) that influence ...
    • Effect of freshwater advection and winds on the vertical structure of chlorophyll in the northern Bay of Bengal 

      Amol, P.; Vinayachandran, P.N.; Shankar, D.; Thushara, V.; Vijith, V.; Chatterjee, A.; Kankonkar, A. (Elsevier, 2020)
      The northern Bay of Bengal receives a large amount of fresh water through river runoff and rainfall during the Indian summer monsoon (June-September). This fresh water spreads offshore and can modulate the upper-ocean ...
    • Evidence for the existence of Persian Gulf water and Red Sea water in the Bay of Bengal 

      Jain, V.; Shankar, D.; Vinayachandran, P.N.; Kankonkar, A.; Chatterjee, A.; Amol, P.; Almeida, A.M.; Michael, G.S.; Mukherjee, A.; Chatterjee, M.; Fernandes, R.; Luis, R.; Kamble, A.; Hegde, A.; Chatterjee, S.; Das, U.; Neema, C.P. (Springer, 2017)
      The high-salinity water masses that originate in the North Indian Ocean are Arabian Sea High-Salinity Water (ASHSW), Persian Gulf Water (PGW), and Red Sea Water (RSW). Among them, only ASHSW has been shown to exist in the ...
    • Near-inertial currents off the east coast of India 

      Mukherjee, A.; Shankar, D.; Aparna, S.G.; Amol, P.; Fernando, V.; Fernandes, R.; Khalap, S.T.; Satlekar, N.P.; Agarvadekar, Y.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Tari, A.P.; Kankonkar, A.; Vernekar, S. (Elsevier, 2013)
      We use data from moorings equipped with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCPs) and deployed in the Bay of Bengal off the east coast of India from May 2009 to February 2012 to study the near-inertial currents (NICs) on ...
    • Observed current variability in Gulf of Mannar 

      Jain, V.; Amol, P.; Fernando, V.; Michael, G.S.; Aparna, S.G.; Kankonkar, A.; Tari, P.A.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Satelkar, N.P.; Khalap, S.T. (Springer, 2021)
      We present current data from an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) moored on the continental shelf-break in the Gulf of Mannar (GoM) near Ram Setu during 2010-2011. The observations show that the near-surface, ...
    • Observed intraseasonal and seasonal variability of the West India coastal current on the continental slope. 

      Amol, P.; Shankar, D.; Fernando, V.; Mukherjee, A.; Aparna, S.G.; Fernandes, R.; Michael, G.S.; Khalap, S.T.; Satelkar, N.P.; Agarvadekar, Y.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Tari, A.P.; Kankonkar, A.; Vernekar, S. (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2014)
      We present current data from acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) moored on the continental slope off the west coast of India. The data were collected at four locations (roughly at Kanyakumari, Kollam, Goa, and Mumbai) ...
    • Observed seasonal and intraseasonal variability of the East India Coastal Current on the continental slope. 

      Mukherjee, A.; Shankar, D.; Fernando, V.; Amol, P.; Aparna, S.G.; Fernandes, R.; Michael, G.S.; Khalap, S.T.; Satelkar, N.P.; Agarvadekar, Y.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Tari, A.P.; Kankonkar, A.; Vernekar, S. (Indian Academy of Sciences, 2014)
      We present data from three acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) moored off Cuddalore (12 Degree N), Kakinada (16.5 Degree N), and Gopalpur (19 Degree N) on the continental slope of the western Bay of Bengal and one ...
    • Observed tidal currents on the continental shelf off the east coast of India 

      Jithin, A.K.; Unnikrishnan, A.S.; Fernando, V.; Subeesh, M.P.; Fernandes, R.; Khalap, S.; Narayan, S.; Agarvadekar, Y.; Gaonkar, M.; Tari, P.; Kankonkar, A.; Vernekar, S. (Elsevier, 2017)
      In the present study, we analysed 9-month long data from Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) deployed on the shelf off the east coast of India to study the characteristics of tidal currents in the region. The ADCPs ...
    • Observed variability of the East India Coastal Current on the continental shelf during 2010-2018 

      Mukhopadhyay, S.; Shankar, D.; Aparna, S.G.; Fernando, V.; Kankonkar, A. (Springer, 2020)
      We describe the variability of the East India Coastal Current (EICC) during 2010-2018 on the outer continental shelf using data from four ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profilers) moorings deployed off Gopalpur (~ 19.5�N), ...
    • Observed variability of the East India Coastal Current on the continental slope during 2009-2018 

      Mukhopadhyay, S.; Shankar, D.; Aparna, S.G.; Mukherjee, A.; Fernando, V.; Kankonkar, A.; Khalap, S.; Satelkar, N.P.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Tari, A.P.; Khedekar, R.R.; Ghatkar, S. (Springer, 2020)
      We describe the variability of the East India Coastal Current (EICC) during 2009-2018 using data from ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler) moorings deployed on the continental slope in the western Bay of Bengal. The ...
    • Observed variability of the West India Coastal Current on the continental shelf from 2010-2017 

      Chaudhuri, Anya; Amol, P.; Shankar, D.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Aparna, S.G.; Fernando, V.; Kankonkar, A. (Springer, 2021)
      We describe the variability of the West India Coastal Current (WICC) during 2009-2017 using data from acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCPs) attached to moorings deployed on the outer shelf at a water-column depth of ...
    • Observed variability of the West India Coastal Current on the continental slope from 2009-2018 

      Chaudhuri, A.; Shankar, D.; Aparna, S.G.; Amol, P.; Fernando, V.; Kankonkar, A.; Michael, G.S.; Satelkar, N.P.; Khalap, S.T.; Tari, A.P.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Ghatkar, S.; Khedekar, R.R. (2020)
      We describe the variability of the West India Coastal Current (WICC) during October 2008 to October 2018 using data from ADCP (acoustic Doppler current profiler) moorings deployed on the continental slope off the west coast ...
    • Observed variations in stratification and currents in the Zuari estuary, west coast of India 

      Sundar, D.; Unnikrishnan, A.S.; Michael, G.S.; Kankonkar, A.; Nidheesh, A.G.; Subeesh, M.P. (Springer, 2015)
      25-hour time series measurements of vertical salinity profiles and currents in Zuari estuary were done during both spring and neap tidal cycles of pre-monsoon (April–May), south-west monsoon (June–September) and post-monsoon ...
    • Two decades of current observations in the equatorial Indian Ocean 

      Jain, V.; Amol, P.; Aparna, S.G.; Fernando, V.; Kankonkar, A.; Murty, V.S.N.; Almeida, A.M.; Sardar, A.A.; Khalap, S.T.; Satelkar, N.P.; Ghatkar, S.; Tari, P.A.; Gaonkar, M.G.; Khedekar, R. (Springer, 2021)
      Deep-sea moorings in the equatorial Indian Ocean were first deployed by India in the year 2000, and currents were measured at three locations (77°E, 83°E, and 93°E) on the equator. In this paper, we present two decades of ...