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dc.contributor.authorChatterjee, A.
dc.contributor.authorShankar, D.
dc.contributor.authorShenoi, S.S.C.
dc.contributor.authorReddy, G.V.
dc.contributor.authorMichael, G.S.
dc.contributor.authorRavichandran, M.
dc.contributor.authorGopalakrishna, V.V.
dc.contributor.authorRao, E.P.R.
dc.contributor.authorUdayaBhaskar, T.V.S.
dc.contributor.authorSanjeevan, V.N.
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-27T09:02:03Z
dc.date.available2012-07-27T09:02:03Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Earth System Science, vol.121(3); 2012; 559-593
dc.identifier.urihttp://drs.nio.org/drs/handle/2264/4097
dc.description.abstractThe most used temperature and salinity climatology for the world ocean, including the Indian Ocean, is the World Ocean Atlas (WOA) because of the vast amount of data used in its preparation. The WOA climatology does not, however, include all the available hydrographic data from the Indian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), leading to the potential for improvement if the data from this region are included to prepare a new climatology. We use all the data that went into the preparation of the WOA, but also add considerable data from Indian sources, to prepare new annual, seasonal, and monthly climatologies of temperature and salinity for the Indian Ocean. The addition of data improves the climatology considerably in the Indian EEZ, the differences between the new North Indian Ocean Atlas (NIOA) and WOA being most significant in the Bay of Bengal, where the patchiness seen in WOA, an artifact of the sparsity of data, was eliminated in NIOA. The significance of the new climatology is that it presents a more stable climatological value for the temperature and salinity fields in the Indian EEZ.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherIndian Academy of Sciences
dc.rights© Indian Academy of Sciences. All efforts have been made to respect the copyright to the best of our knowledge. Inadvertent omissions, if brought to our notice, stand for correction and withdrawal of document from this repository
dc.subjectsurface temperature
dc.subjectsalinity
dc.subjectoceanographic atlases
dc.titleA new atlas of temperature and salinity for the North Indian Ocean
dc.typeJournal Article


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