Topic: Bay Of Bengal

Rocket carrying Indian communication satellite explodes shortly after launchA rocket carrying an Indian communication satellite has exploded just after its launch in southern India.Television images Saturday showed the rocket exploding in the first stage of liftoff from the Sriharikota space center ...

Hydrology

The hydrological characteristics of the Indian Ocean are derived from the interaction of atmospheric conditions (rain, wind, and solar energy) with the surface, the sources of its water, and the deep (thermohaline) circulation, all of which combine to form generally horizontal layers ...

Myanmar

Stretching from latitude 10? N to about 28? 30 N, Myanmar is the northernmost country of Southeast Asia; it is shaped like a kite with a long tail that runs south along the Malay Peninsula.

Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal is a body of water located on the northeast side of the Indian Ocean . The Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are the peaks of a submerged mountain range, separate the Bay of Bengal from the Andaman Sea.The ...
Geography and oceanography are full of terms that most people recognise, but are very difficult when it comes to actually defining them. It initially seems like a good theory, after all the Gulf of Mexico is the tenth largest body of water ...
Temperature and salinity profiles measured on-board ORV Sagar Kanya, during 18 January--17 February 2005, in the vicinity of the Chennai coast and west of the Andaman (AN) Islands, have been employed to assess and quantify the post-tsunami impact on the upperocean thermohaline ...
A letter to the editor is presented about the impact of the red tide of Noctiluca scintillans on the coastal water quality of the near-shore waters off the Rushikulya River, Bay of Bengal in India. 93, NO. 5, 10 SEPTEMBER 2007 616 ...
The impact of tropical cyclones formed over the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal on the total ozone derived from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer aboard the Earth Probe satellite has been studied. Variations in daily total ozone anomalies, from development to ...
In the pre-satellite era, our understanding of the monsoon was based primarily on ground-based observations. The land-sea contrast in surface temperature was considered the primary mechanism that drives the monsoon. The role played by water vapour in controlling vertical stability, latent heat ...

Erratum

Is the biological productivity in the Bay of Bengal light limited? But this potential of M. undulatus makes it possible for their population sex ratio to regain equal sex ratio, whenever the sex ratio becomes biased, which can happen if the fecundity ...