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Surface meteorological and near surface oceanographic atlas of the tropical Indian Ocean.
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1991
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Description:Historical observations of surface marine meteorology (COADS: 1950-1979), near surface vertical thermal structure (MOODS: 1948-1981), and near surface ship drift (Cutler and Swallow, 1984: 1854-1974) for the tropical Indian Ocean are compiled to generate mean monthly climatologies of several observed and derived parameters on a 2° x 2° grid. The derived parameters include surface heat exchanges, surface wind stress and its curl, mixed layer depth (MLD), vertical thermal gradient just beneath the mixed layer, depth of 20°C isotherms, and zonal and meridional near surface flow patterns. The formulations used in the derivation of these quantities are also presented. The resultant climatological fields are machine contoured. The annual cycle of many of the fields are presented in terms of amplitude and phase of the annual and semi-annual harmonics.
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