BAY OF BENGAL PROCESS STUDIES ( 1999 - 2003 )

The JGOFS group along with some universities of India now plans to undertake studies on Biogeochemical cycles in the Bay of Bengal.

The broad goals of the Bay of Bengal programme would be to address

  1. The role of freshwater and suspended discharge in controlling the mixed layer, nutrient and production dynamics leading to carbon exchanges with the atmosphere and export of fluxes.
  2. Short term variability induced by tropical cyclones in the upper water column leading to fluctuations in carbon flux.
  3. Seasonal and inter-annual variability in the overall CO 2 air sea exchange balance in the Bay of Bengal.
  4. The role of remote forcing in the spatio-temporal variability of the water column in terms of nutrients and productivity.

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