Evaluation of model simulated and MODIS-Aqua retrieved sea surface chlorophyll in the eastern Arabian Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 181 ◽  
pp. 61-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunal Chakraborty ◽  
Anubhav Gupta ◽  
Aneesh A. Lotliker ◽  
Gavin Tilstone
2010 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.K. Banakar ◽  
B.S. Mahesh ◽  
G. Burr ◽  
A.R. Chodankar

Paired measurements of Mg/Ca and δ18O of Globigerenoides sacculifer from an Eastern Arabian Sea (EAS) sediment core indicate that sea-surface temperature (SST) varied within 2°C and sea-surface salinity within 2 psu during the last 100 ka. SST was coldest (∽ 27°C) during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4 and 2. Sea-surface salinity was highest (∽ 37.5 psu) during most of the last glacial period (∽ 60–18 ka), concurrent with increased δ18O G.sacculifer and C/N ratios of organic matter and indicative of sustained intense winter monsoons. SST time series are influenced by both Greenland and Antarctic climates. However, the sea-surface salinity time series and the deglacial warming in the SST record (beginning at ∽18 ka) compare well with the LR04 benthic δ18O-stack and Antarctic temperatures. This suggests a teleconnection between the climate in the Southern Hemisphere and the EAS. Therefore, the last 100-ka variability in EAS climatology appears to have evolved in response to a combination of global climatic forcings and regional monsoons. The most intense summer monsoons within the Holocene occurred at ∽8 ka and are marked by SST cooling of ∽ 1°C, sea-surface salinity decrease of 0.5 psu, and δ18O G.sacculifer decrease of 0.2‰.


2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P U Zacharia ◽  
V.H. Sajna ◽  
G. Rojith ◽  
G.N. Roshen ◽  
Dhanya Joseph ◽  
...  

The Indian mackerel Rastrelligerkanagurta(Cuvier, 1816) is one of the most important marine fishery resources along the south-eastern Arabian Sea along the coast of Kerala, south India. The effect of selected environmental variables on the Relative effort (Effort) and weighted catch per unit effort (cpue)of the fish were investigated using simple correlation and Path analysis. Six major oceanographic variables, namely sea surface temperature (SST), sea surface chlorophyll-a concentration (SSC), sea surface salinity (SSS), Precipitation (Pr) Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) (ENSO index) were selected for the present study. Among these SST had the highest direct negative effect (-0.282, p<0.01), followed by SSS (-0.152, p<0.1) and IOD (-0.006, p<0.01). The highest positive direct effect on the cpue was exhibited by Pr (0.514, p<0.001) followed by SSC and SOI (0.178, p<0.01). The environmental variables also exerted indirect effects on cpue through Effort. The residual variance indicated that there are spurious effects exerted by environmental variables not included in the study. According to the coefficient of determination (R2), the relative importance of the influence of causally dependent environmental variables on the cpue of Indian mackerel is Pr> SSC >SSS.


2001 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Bange ◽  
M. O. Andreae ◽  
S. Lal ◽  
C. S. Law ◽  
S. W. A. Naqvi ◽  
...  

Abstract. We computed high-resolution (1o latitude × 1o longitude) seasonal and annual nitrous oxide (N2O) concentration fields for the Arabian Sea surface layer using a database containing more than 2400 values measured between December 1977 and July 1997. N2O concentrations are highest during the southwest (SW) monsoon along the southern Indian continental shelf. Annual emissions range from 0.33 to 0.70 Tg N2O and are dominated by fluxes from coastal regions during the SW and northeast monsoons. However, the tendency to focus on measurements in locally restricted features in combination with insufficient seasonal data coverage leads to considerable uncertainties of the concentration fields and thus in the flux estimates, especially in the coastal zones of the northern and eastern Arabian Sea.


2005 ◽  
Vol 219 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 99-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.K. Banakar ◽  
T. Oba ◽  
A.R. Chodankar ◽  
T. Kuramoto ◽  
M. Yamamoto ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
A. P. Anu ◽  
Elizabeth Shani N. X. ◽  
M. Harikrishnan

South Eastern Arabian Sea is well known for its prolonged and warmer sea surface temperature (>30 °C) events generally known as Arabian Sea mini warm pool occurring during the pre-monsoon periods (March-May). To study the intensity and spatial extent of the warm pool, ten years (2007-2016) of satellite-derived weekly averaged SST and in-situ data measured from INS Sagardhwani are used. The analysis is done based on the precondition ‘sea surface temperature > 30 °C’ and lasts more than a week. These analysis demonstrate the existence of a strong inter-annual variability. It is also identified that the sea surface temperature in the year 2016 is the hottest over the decade with maximum spatial coverage and prolonged period of occurrence. These anomalous events are also explained in terms of variabilities of the atmospheric water vapour and wind at the sea surface.


2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-336
Author(s):  
Shital P. Godad ◽  
Sushant S. Naik ◽  
P. Divakar Naidu

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