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The connected western boundary current system in the Arabian Sea plays an important role in the exchange of heat, mass, and freshwater and their distribution.
The Somali Current reverses direction each year with the monsoons, driving upwelling and rich marine life in ways most ocean currents never do.
The summer phase of the Somali Current triggers one of the most intense coastal upwelling events in the world. As the current flows northward and the Great Whirl spins up, cold,
Along the Somali coast, the reversals of winds and currents, known for many centuries, have been used by the Arabic traders for their navigation along the African coast and towards India.
The three main monsoon circulation sections deal with the equatorial regime (Section 3), the Somali Current and western Arabian Sea (Section 4), and the Bay of Bengal, seasonally reversing monsoon
The mean current field exhibits the western boundary Somali Current, weak westward North Equatorial Current, weak West Indian Coastal Current. Besides
Further insights into the developments in the Somali Current region between boreal summer and fall 2014 are provided by the drifter/altimetry/wind synthesis (Figure 3) that allows the computation of the
The Somali Current exhibits two distinct phases, defined by changes in direction and speed. During the northern summer (June to September), the current flows rapidly northeastward
Unlike other strong western boundary currents, the Somali Current reverses seasonally; its reversal has been attributed to the seasonally reversing Indian monsoon wind. The Somali Current is important for
The Somali Current system in the western Arabian Sea reverses seasonally with the South Asian Monsoon and is associated with localized upwelling cells or cold wedges during the
In the early phase of the monsoon response, during May, with weak southerly winds off Somalia, a cross equatorial inertial current develops which turns offshore a few degrees north of the
The Somali Current, with a volume transport comparable to that of the Gulf Stream, changes direction with the monsoon winds. It flows north-eastward during the summer and southwestward in the winter
The Somali Current is a cold ocean boundary current that runs along the coast of Somalia and Oman in the Western Indian Ocean and is analogous to the Gulf
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Somali upwelling system during northern summer is believed to be the largest upwelling region in the Indian Ocean and has motivated some of the early studies
Theoretical analysis and model simulations suggest that the exceptionally weak SSC circulation was primarily caused by abnormal wind forcing around the equator, associated with
There are a number of different technologies for extracting energy from marine currents, including horizontal and vertical-axis turbines, as well as others such as venturis and oscillating foils.
While the Somali Current decays monotonically in the vertical during the summer monsoon, no deep-reaching boundarycurrent exists during the winter. Rather, there are southward flows above and
Increased Ekman pumping during stronger SW monsoons strengthens coastal upwelling along the Somali coast. The Arabian Sea basin-wide anticyclonic circulation and presence of the GW
Southwestward current (Dec-Feb, Winter Monsoon): During the fall (Sep-Nov), with the strengthening northeast monsoon influencing it, the Somali Current gradually becomes weaker and slower.
The monsoon currents extend over the entire basin, from the Somali coast to the eastern Bay of Bengal. They do not, however, come into being, or decay, over this entire region at a given
The three main monsoon circulation sections deal with the equatorial regime (Section 3), the Somali Current and western Arabian Sea (Section 4), and the Bay of Bengal, seasonally
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