Bay of Bengal
Monsoon Buoy
| R.V. Sagar Nidhi and Monsoon Buoy |
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| Photo courtesy Sean Patrick Whelan |
Atmospheric Forcing and the Structure and Evolution of the Upper Ocean in the Bay of Bengal
Data Access- Shared quality-controlled surface meteorology and air-sea fluxes
We are providing for all to use the surface meteorological and air-sea flux time series
collected on the WHOI surface mooring at 18°N, 89.5°E deployed by Drs. Tom Farrar
and Robert Weller with support from the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research (ONSR).
Please acknowledge the source of the data; acknowledgement details are included in the
Readme file. The reference that should cited in conjunction with the use of the surface
meteorological and air-sea flux data from the WHOI buoy is:
Weller, R.A., J.T. Farrar, J. Buckley, S. Mathew, R. Venkatesan, J. Sree Lekha, D. Chaudhuri, N. Suresh Kumar,
and B. Praveen Kumar. 2016. Air-sea interaction in the Bay of Bengal. Oceanography 29(2):28–37, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2016.36
We have used redundant data from the buoy and other information to produce a single
set of time series of surface meteorology and of the air-sea fluxes of heat, freshwater,
and momentum. Both are provided at different sampling rates: one-minute, one-hour, one-day,
and one-month. Because we need to compute wind velocity relative to surface current, we
also include the 2 meter deep ocean velocity time series we used in the flux computation.
Met data
Surface Flux Data
Surface Currents Data
Page updated: May 17, 2016
