EL Nino is an abnormal warm situation in the Pacific Ocean which manifests once in a few years due to ocean-atmosphere interaction. It is much talked about inrecent times because it is believed to be'associated with floods, ...

A screen sampler fabricated to study the sea surface microlayer (SML) has been described. The screen sampler was tested in the Mandovi estuary and adjacent waters. Physico-chemical parameters of the subsurface waters from ...

Marine macrophytes of Andaman islands were qualitatively surveyed. In all 40 genera, 64 species of marine algae, 17 genera, 22 species of mangroves while 3 genera, 3 species of seagrasses are reported. There were 26 species ...

The Phytoplankton and zooplankton from the paddy-cum-prawn culture fields from 4 areas in and around the Cochin backwaters were studied. Total Phytoplankton counts in the seasonal and perennial fields in all the areas ...

This report gives the basic theory of ocean waves and ocean wave prediction and a description of the physical background and of tests of the wave hindcast model Dolphin