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Air-Sea Flux Measurements in the Bay of Bengal during the JASMINE Field Program
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. E. Hare, A. A. Grachev, and E. F. Bradley
In May and early June of 1999 the Joint Air-Sea Monsoon Experiment (JASMINE) was conducted in the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal aboard the NOAA R/V Ronald. H. Brown. A group of government laboratory and university researchers cooperated on this investigation of ocean, near-surface, and atmospheric processes before and during the summer monsoon. The ship made several transects from south of the equator to 12 degrees N. latitude along 89 E. longitude. Two 5-day surveys were also conducted near 10 degrees N. latitude; the first survey was in suppressed conditions and the second was in fully developed monsoon conditions. In this paper we will give results of preliminary analysis of the air-sea flux data including cruise-averages plus suppressed versus disturbed conditions. The results will be compared with nine other tropical cruises (including three in TOGA COARE) by the ETL air-sea flux group.
Joint Session 3, JASMINE II (Joint with the 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology and the 10th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmospehere)
Wednesday, 24 May 2000, 2:00 PM-3:29 PM
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