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Summer cooling of the Arabian Sea—a review

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The summer cooling of the Arabian Sea has been reviewed in relation to the dynamic and thermodynamic processes. The differences in the quantum of cooling in the coastal regions have been attributed to the variations in the strength of coastal upwelling along the respective coasts. In the central portions of the Arabian Sea, the thickness of the surface layer and the thermal structure appear to be predominantly governed by the turbulent mixing of cold waters entrained into the surface layer in association with the deepening of current shear zone. The surface heat losses during the passage of a cyclone over the east central Arabian Sea account for only 40% of the total heat change in the surface layer while the rest is lost into the interior. Also presented are climatological mean patterns of the forcing parameters and their variations during certain years.

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    J S Sastry & V Ramesh Babu

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Sastry, J.S., Babu, V.R. Summer cooling of the Arabian Sea—a review. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 94, 117–128 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02871944

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