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    • A first report on a bloom of the marine prymnesiophycean, Phaeocystis globosa from the Arabian Sea 

      Madhupratap, M.; Sawant, S.S.; Gauns, M. (Ifremer/ CNRS/ IRD/ Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves, 2000)
      A thick bloom of the marine prymnesiophycean, Phaeocystis globosa was observed in the central Arabian Sea during the summer monsoon period (July-August, 1996). The cells were mostly in colonial form, embedded in gelatinous ...
    • Prioritization of potential sites for marine biodiversity conservation in India 

      Untawale, A.G.; Dhargalkar, V.K.; Deshmukhe, G.V. (World Wide Fund for Nature - India, New Delhi (India), 2000)
      Tropical marine ecosystems of the Indian subcontinent harbour a large number of species belonging to various habitats that include mangrove swamps, estuaries, lagoons, muddy, sandy/rocky shores, and oceanic islands. In ...
    • Longshore transport based on directional waves along north Tamilnadu Coast, India 

      Jena, B.K.; Chandramohan, P.; SanilKumar, V. (Coastal Research Foundation, 2001)
      The accurate assessment of longshore sediment transport pattern along Nagapattinam-Poompuhar, Tamil Nadu, India coastline bears significance due to the historical erosion and its geographical location adjoining the sheltered ...
    • Nearshore processes along Tikkavanipalem Beach, Visakhapatnam, India 

      SanilKumar, V.; AshokKumar, K.; Raju, N.S.N. (Coastal Research Foundation, 2001)
      Directional wave data collected at 12 m water depth, at 1 km distance off Tikkavanipalem, Andhra Pradesh, India from December 1997 to November 1998, was used to estimate the longshore currents and longshore sediment transport ...
    • An interactive graphical system of XBT data quality control and visualization 

      Pankajakshan, T.; Ghosh, A.K.; Sarupria, J.S.; Gopalakrishna, V.V. (Pergamon, 2001)
      A PC-based system has been developed for quality control and visualization of expendable bathy thermograph (XBT) data archived at the Indian Oceanographic Data Centre. The system, coded in Visual C++, is user interactive ...
    • EIA modelling for CZM applications. Part 1 

      Vethamony, P.; Babu, M.T. (Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, 2001)
    • BOBMEX: The Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment 

      Bhat, G.S.; Gadgil, S.; Kumar, P.V.H.; Kalsi, S.R.; Madhusoodanan, P.; Murty, V.S.N.; Rao, C.V.K.P.; RameshBabu, V.; Rao, L.V.G.; Rao, R.R.; Ravichandran, M.; Reddy, K.G.; Rao, P.Sanjeeva; Sengupta, D.; Sikka, D.R.; Swain, J.; Vinayachandran, P.N. (American Meteorological Society, 2001)
      The first observational experiment under the Indian Climate Research Programme, called the Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX), was carried out during July-August 1999. BOBMEX was aimed at measurements of important ...
    • Prediction of tides using back-propagation neural networks 

      Mandal, S. (Allied, Chennai, 2001)
      Prediction of tides is very much essential for human activities and to reduce the construction cost in marine environment. This paper presents an application of the artificial neural network with back-propagation procedures ...
    • Cyclone and after... 

      Joseph, A. (Dreams Alive Magazines, 2001)
      This is a general article meant for the non-specialist reader. The article provides a brief description of the devastating effects of tropical cyclones in general, and super-cyclone that hit the Orissa Coast, India in 1999, ...
    • Monsoons, history of 

      Niitsuma, N.; Naidu, P.D. (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)
      The evolution of the Asian monsoon started at around 9.5 Ma, in response to the uplift of the Himalayas. The monsoonal intensity reached its maximum at around 5 Ma, and from that time the associated easterly trade winds ...
    • Wave forecasting in near real time basis by neural network 

      Rao, S.; Mandal, S.; Prabaharan, N. (Allied, Chennai, 2001)
      In modern age, the human settlements and activities are very much increasing near the oceanfront. In order to cope up with the need such as construction of jetties, harbours, offshore berths, offshore platforms, navigation ...
    • Numerical modeling of tide-induced currents in Thane Creek, west coast of India 

      Naidu, V.S.; Sarma, R.V. (American Society of Civil Engineering, 2001)
      A 2D numerical model was applied to study tide-induced currents in the Thane Creek, Maharashtra, India. The model was forced by the tide at Apollo Bunder, calibrated with the observed tide at Pir Pau, and verified with the ...
    • Wavelength of ocean waves and surf beat at duck from array measurements 

      Fernandes, A.A.; Menon, H.B.; Sarma, Y.V.B.; Jog, P.D.; Almeida, A.M. (American Society of Civil Engineers, Virginia, USA, 2001)
      Wavelength of ocean waves and surf beat (infra gravity waves) has for the first time been computed as a function of frequency from different combinations of non-collinear 3-gauge arrays. Data at the 15-gauge polygonal array ...
    • Measurements of sea level off Tikkavanipalem - Coast India 

      Joseph, A.; Desai, R.G.P.; Peshwe, V.B.; Desa, E.; Vijaykumar, K.; Desa, E.S.; Mehra, P.; Nagvekar, S. (Allied, Chennai, 2001)
      Sea level and meteorological measurements have been made, off Tikkavanipalem coast in Andhra Pradesh, India in 1997-98. Sea level measurements were made in four temporal segments of one-month duration each during a one-year ...
    • Seasonal spreading of the Persian Gulf water mass in the Arabian Sea 

      Prasad, T.G.; Ikeda, M.; PrasannaKumar, S. (American Geophysical Union, 2001)
      The characteristics of the subsurface salinity maximum associated with the Persian Gulf Water mass (PGW) are used to quantify the spreading and mixing of PGW in the thermocline of the Arabian Sea based on a bimonthly ...
    • EIA modelling for coastal zone management. Part 2 

      Babu, M.T.; Vethamony, P. (Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai, 2001)
    • Seasonal variability in the vertical current structure and kinetic energy in the Central Indian Ocean Basin 

      Murty, V.S.N.; Savin, M.; RameshBabu, V.; Suryanarayana, A. (Pergamon, 2001)
      Seasonal variability in the currents at the subsurface (450-670 m), intermediate (1150-1370 m), deeper (3450-3670 m) and near-bottom (4270-5100 m) depths at three mooring station in the Central Indian Ocean Basin (CIOB) ...
    • Estimation of wave directional spreading 

      Deo, M.C.; Gondane, D.S.; SanilKumar, V. (American Society of Civil Engineers, Virginia, USA, 2001)
      One of the useful measures of waves directional spreading at a given location is the directional spreading parameter. This paper presents a new approach to arrive at its characteristic value using the computational technique ...
    • Time-dependent stratification in the Gauthami-Godavari Estuary 

      Rao, T.V.N. (Estuarine Research Federation, 2001)
      The time-dependent salinity stratification in an environment of highly variable turbulence of Gauthami-Godavari Estuary, Andhra Pradesh, India is described. From time series observations at three stations over two tidal ...