JGOFS-India

This programme was sponsored by the Department of Ocean Development, New Dehli and was a multidisciplinary approach jointly conducted by four national agencies: National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) and Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation (C-MMACS). The field campaign in the eastern Arabian Sea was conducted between 1992-97 in 7 cruises with ORV Sagar Kanya as the platform.

The large number of parameters simultaneously measured over seasons covering the west coast of India and central Arabian Sea brought in several new insights such as rates of air-sea flux of CO2. Carbon fixation rates resulting from winter cooling and open ocean upwelling as well as the coupling of physics with chemistry and biology. The raw and processed data along with other published information incorporated in this CD will hopefully be used by scientist all over the world to resolve the mysteries of the Arabian Sea-a unique tropical ocean basin.