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SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE BAY OF BENGAL:
FROM MONSOONS TO MIXING
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FROM THE GUEST EDITORS. Introduction to the Special Issue
on the Bay of Bengal: From Monsoons to Mixing
By A. Mahadevan, T. Paluszkiewicz, M. Ravichandran, D. Sengupta,
and A. Tandon
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Monsoons to Mixing in the Bay of Bengal: Multiscale Air-Sea Interactions
and Monsoon Predictability
By B.N. Goswami, S.A. Rao, D. Sengupta, and S. Chakravorty
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Air-Sea Interaction in the Bay of Bengal
By R.A. Weller, J.T. Farrar, J. Buckley, S. Mathew, R. Venkatesan, J. Sree Lekha,
D. Chaudhuri, N. Suresh Kumar, and B. Praveen Kumar
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Representation of Bay of Bengal Upper-Ocean Salinity in General
Circulation Models
By J.S. Chowdary, G. Srinivas, T.S. Fousiya, A. Parekh, C. Gnanaseelan,
H. Seo, and J.A. MacKinnon
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A Tale of Two Spicy Seas
By J.A. MacKinnon, J.D. Nash, M.H. Alford, A.J. Lucas, J.B. Mickett,
E.L. Shroyer, A.F. Waterhouse, A. Tandon, D. Sengupta, A. Mahadevan,
M. Ravichandran, R. Pinkel, D.L. Rudnick, C.B. Whalen, M.S. Alberty,
J. Sree Lekha, E.C. Fine, D. Chaudhuri, and G.L. Wagner
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Modification of Upper-Ocean Temperature Structure by Subsurface Mixing
in the Presence of Strong Salinity Stratification
By E.L. Shroyer, D.L. Rudnick, J.T. Farrar, B. Lim, S.K. Venayagamoorthy,
L.C. St. Laurent, A. Garanaik, and J.N. Moum
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Freshwater in the Bay of Bengal: Its Fate and Role in Air-Sea Heat Exchange
By A. Mahadevan, G. Spiro Jaeger, M. Freilich, M.M. Omand, E.L. Shroyer,
and D. Sengupta
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Bay of Bengal: 2013 Northeast Monsoon Upper-Ocean Circulation
By A.L. Gordon, E.L. Shroyer, A. Mahadevan, D. Sengupta, and M. Freilich
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Modeling Salinity Exchanges Between the Equatorial Indian Ocean and
the Bay of Bengal
By T.G. Jensen, H.W. Wijesekera, E.S. Nyadjro, P.G. Thoppil, J.F. Shriver,
K.K. Sandeep, and V. Pant
102 Collaborative Observations of Boundary Currents, Water Mass Variability,
and Monsoon Response in the Southern Bay of Bengal
By C.M. Lee, S.U.P. Jinadasa, A. Anutaliya, L.R. Centurioni, H.J.S. Fernando,
V. Hormann, M. Lankhorst, L. Rainville, U. Send, and H.W. Wijesekera
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