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Observations of Currents Over the Deep Southern Bay of Bengal—
With a Little Luck
By H.W. Wijesekera, W.J. Teague, E. Jarosz, D.W. Wang, T.G. Jensen,
S.U.P. Jinadasa, H.J.S. Fernando, L.R. Centurioni, Z.R. Hallock, E.L. Shroyer,
and J.N. Moum
124 Variability of Near-Surface Circulation and Sea Surface Salinity Observed
from Lagrangian Drifters in the Northern Bay of Bengal During the Waning
2015 Southwest Monsoon
By V. Hormann, L.R. Centurioni, A. Mahadevan, S. Essink, E.A. D’Asaro,
and B. Praveen Kumar
134 Adrift Upon a Salinity-Stratified Sea: A View of Upper-Ocean Processes
in the Bay of Bengal During the Southwest Monsoon
By A.J. Lucas, J.D. Nash, R. Pinkel, J.A. MacKinnon, A. Tandon, A. Mahadevan,
M.M. Omand, M. Freilich, D. Sengupta, M. Ravichandran, and A. Le Boyer
146 The Interplay Between Submesoscale Instabilities and Turbulence in the
Surface Layer of the Bay of Bengal
By S. Sarkar, H.T. Pham, S. Ramachandran, J.D. Nash, A. Tandon, J. Buckley,
A.A. Lotliker, and M.M. Omand
158 Monsoon Mixing Cycles in the Bay of Bengal: A Year-Long Subsurface
Mixing Record
By S.J. Warner, J. Becherer, K. Pujiana, E.L. Shroyer, M. Ravichandran,
V.P. Thangaprakash, and J.N. Moum
170 Ocean Turbulence and Mixing Around Sri Lanka and in Adjacent Waters
of the Northern Bay of Bengal
By S.U.P. Jinadasa, I. Lozovatsky, J. Planella-Morató, J.D. Nash,
J.A. MacKinnon, A.J. Lucas, H.W. Wijesekera, and H.J.S. Fernando
180 Decay Mechanisms of Near-Inertial Mixed Layer Oscillations in the
Bay of Bengal
By T.M.S. Johnston, D. Chaudhuri, M. Mathur, D.L. Rudnick, D. Sengupta,
H.L. Simmons, A. Tandon, and R. Venkatesan
192 Large-Scale Air-Sea Coupling Processes in the Bay of Bengal Using
Space-Borne Observations
By R. Sharma, N. Agarwal, A. Chakraborty, S. Mallick, J. Buckley, V. Shesu,
and A. Tandon
202 What Controls Seasonal Evolution of Sea Surface Temperature in the
Bay of Bengal? Mixed Layer Heat Budget Analysis Using Moored Buoy
Observations Along 90°E
By V.P. Thangaprakash, M.S. Girishkumar, K. Suprit, N. Suresh Kumar,
D. Chaudhuri, K. Dinesh, A. Kumar, S. Shivaprasad, M. Ravichandran,
J.T. Farrar, R. Sundar, and R.A. Weller
ON THE COVER. A series of vignettes from a research ship
in the Bay of Bengal (above water), during the southwest monsoon
season. On sunny days, the sea surface is a source of heat and mois-
ture feeding deep atmospheric convection. The placid conditions
are abruptly terminated by an approaching wall cloud, accompanied
by gusty winds and torrential monsoon rains. While the ocean’s
surface layer is visibly stirred up, what are the processes that deter-
mine the interior properties and currents? And, how are the air-sea
fluxes themselves affected? These are questions addressed by the
articles in this issue. Photo credits: Above-water photographs by
San Nguyen, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Bottom panel
photo by Gualtiero Spiro Jaeger, MIT/WHOI Joint Program
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