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NOC, UK

SCIPIO cruise on RRS Charles Darwin

SCIPIO: Satellite Calibration and Interior Physics of the Indian Ocean
Designation: RRS Charles Darwin Cruise 141

Port Calls: Seychelles to Mauritius (Leg 1), Mauritius to Mauritius (Leg 2)
Dates: 1-21 June, 2002 (Leg 1), 22 June - 11 July, 2002 (Leg 2).
For details see Report (pdf 1.9M), Paper (pdf 1.5M)

Completed

Data banked with BODC

C. Wooding

WOCE Subsurface Float DAC

Data assembly Centre and inventory of subsurface floats launched from 1989 to 2000

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Data is freely available from the WOCE DAC

B.D. Acharya and P. Sanjeeva Rao, Murty VSN

Bay of Bengal Monsoon Experiment (BOBMEX)
part of the Indian Climate Research Programme

BOBMEX focused on intraseasonal variability of organized convection in the atmosphere and on the role played by ocean-atmosphere interactions in monsoon variability. Special observational platforms like deep water meteorology-oceanography buoys, research ships, weather radars and satellites were used together with conventional meteorological observatories to collect data on the variability of the monsoon ocean-atmosphere system.

Completed
BOBMEX. It was implemented in two stages: BOBMEX-PILOT in October - November 1998 and BOBMEX-1999 in July - August 1999

BOBMEX data are available from the Indian National Oceanographic Data Center, National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa and meteorological data are available from the Additional Director General (Research), India Meteorological Department (IMD), Pune, India.

Please contact Head, Earth Sciences System, DST, New Delhi, India (www.dst.gov.in) for the availability of BOBMEX data.

B.D. Acharya and P. Sanjeeva Rao, Murty VSN

Arabian Sea Monsoon Experiment (ARMEX)
part of the Indian Climate Research Programme

The objective of these experiments was to understand the regional scale ocean - atmosphere coupled processes over the Arabian Sea. Over 25 research organizations from within India and 100 scientists participated in these field programs. In additional to the conventional atmospheric observational systems, special platforms like research ships, atmospheric boundary layer towers, specially organized XBT surveys, research aircraft, deep ocean buoys etc. were also deployed during the two field programs.

ARMEX_IIA aimed to understand the upper ocean dynamics of the warm pool in the southeastern Arabian Sea. Under this program time series observations on temperature and salinity were collected at 5 locations by the moving the vessel from one location to the other, while upper ocean currents (at 15 m and 25 m depths) were measured through a mooring at the central location. A surface moored with buoy was deployed closer to the central location with meteorological sensors on a mast and near surface sensors for temperature and salinity at 3 m below sea surface and current measurements at 2 m and 7 m below sea surface.

Completed
ARMEX was implemented in two phases ARMEX - I (June - August 2002) and ARMEX -II (March - June 2003)

After completion of the two Phases of the ARMEX field observations, a shorter period of observational program called ARMEX_IIA was organized in April - May 2005

Not yet released to the public.
The National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (NCMWRF) is maintaining the meteorological and satellite data for the ARMEX period, and was placed on the web site www.ncmwrf.gov.in in the public domain. Most of the oceanographic measurements were carried out within the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the country. For the oceanographic data, the international researchers may contact the Head, ESS Division, DST, New Delhi (www.dst.gov.in).