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

These authors conclude that a movement of the watemasses takes place in the upper levels from the north to the south Atlantic and in the intermediate levels from the south to the north since the northern area of the Atlantic is warmer than the southern half ; in yet deeper levels the water-masses judging from the differLce in salinity move from north to south the deep water of the south Atl [...] XI.) in his chart of the isothermal distribution of the waters of the Indian Ocean at the zoo-metres level shows the east and norteast areas of the Bay of Bengal as being colder than the region to the soutwest ; but a study of the sets of serial observations given above indicates that in the months ApriOctober the opposite is the case and the waters both to the north in Lat. [...] Within the limits of the area that we are considering namely the regions of the Laccadive Sea and Bay of Bengal and the contiguous area of the Indian Ocean there can be little doubt that we have a series of water-layers superposed the one over the other and ranging from the deep water of the Antarctic drift to the surface-water that is derived in large part from the influx of fresh water THE DE [...] It is interesting to study the distribution of the isothermal lines in the stretch of water extending from the neighbourhood of the Maldive Archipelago on the west across the southern portion of the Laccadive Sea past the south of Ceylon and on across the mouth of the Bay of Bengal to the line of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands on the east. [...] The Andaman Sea belongs to the third of these groups in spite of the fact that the salinity of the surface water of the Bay of Bengal is low for the combined outflow of freshwater from the great rivers of Burma causes a marked lowering of the surface salinity to an extent that renders it even lower than that of the surface-water of the Bay.