Bay of Bengal


Monsoon Buoy


R.V. Sagar Nidhi and Monsoon Buoy
BengalBuoy
Photo courtesy Sean Patrick Whelan
to ONR Web site
Principal funding provided by
Office Of Naval Research
See also
Readme file

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

Record RateNetCDFASCII, g'zippedMetadataQuick PlotMatlab File
1 minute Bengal_1_D_M-60s Bengal_1_D_M-60s Bengal_1_D_M-60s Bengal_1_D_M-60s beng1_met_60s
1 hour Bengal_1_D_M-1hr Bengal_1_D_M-1hr Bengal_1_D_M-1hr Bengal_1_D_M-1hr beng1_met_1hr
1 day Bengal_1_D_M-1d Bengal_1_D_M-1d Bengal_1_D_M-1d Bengal_1_D_M-1d beng1_met_1d
1 month Bengal_1_D_M-1mnth Bengal_1_D_M-1mnth Bengal_1_D_M-1mnth Bengal_1_D_M-1mnth beng1_met_1mnth

 

Surface Flux Data

Record RateNetCDFASCII, g'zippedMetadataQuick PlotMatlab File
1 minute Bengal_1_D_F-60s Bengal_1_D_F-60s Bengal_1_D_F-60s Bengal_1_D_F-60s beng1_flux_60s
1 hour Bengal_1_D_F-1hr Bengal_1_D_F-1hr Bengal_1_D_F-1hr Bengal_1_D_F-1hr beng1_flux_1hr
1 day Bengal_1_D_F-1d Bengal_1_D_F-1d Bengal_1_D_F-1d Bengal_1_D_F-1d beng1_flux_1d
1 month Bengal_1_D_F-1mnth Bengal_1_D_F-1mnth Bengal_1_D_F-1mnth Bengal_1_D_F-1mnth beng1_flux_1mnth

 

Surface Currents Data

Record RateNetCDFASCII, g'zippedMetadataQuick PlotMatlab File
SurfVel1 hour Bengal_1_D_surfV Bengal_1_D_surfV Bengal_1_D_surfV Bengal_1_D_surfV nortek_2mbin_4flux



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