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Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Geographic and Oceanographic Research in Indian Waters

1929

As Krummel (19°7 p. 411) has pointed out the temperature of the surface-water in the northern part of the Indian Ocean increases to a maximum in the month of May when the temperature over the greater part of the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal lies between 29.0° and 29.8°C while in the Andaman Sea and in a small area off the east coast of India it may reach to 30°C or over. [...] During the subsequent part of the year there is a second oscillation in the surface-temperature : at the close of the soutwest monsoon the temperature again rises and it finally falls for a second time with the onset of the north-east monsoon and the incidence of the cold season when the sun is at its maximum southerly declination. [...] This double oscillation in the air-temperature I have already attrbuted to the influence of the north-east monsoon and it seems probable that the oscilltion in the surface-temperature is to be attributed to the same agency ; as in the case of the air-temperature the oscillation is only to be detected over the region of the Andaman Sea and possibly over the south-east part of the Bay of Beng [...] In the case of the surfacwater in these two areas namely the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea the correlation between the average temperature and the maximum range are the exact opposite of each other ; in the Bay of Bengal the maximum range appears to be greatest when the average temperature is lowest whereas in the Andaman Sea the two sets of figures vary simultaneously and in the same di [...] In the case of the N. Atlantic series of observations it has been shown that the sea-temperature taking the average of all observations falls in the middle of the day to a fraction of a degree below the air-temperature.
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Pages
153
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100203
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-iv R. B. Sewell view
V. Temperature and Salinity of the Surface-Waters of the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea with References to the Laccadive Sea
207-355 R. B. Sewell view

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