EKAMSAT Arabian Sea Oceanographic and Atmospheric Campaign Data

EKAMSAT is a collaborative Indo-US field campaign collecting oceanographic and atmospheric data to improve monsoon prediction models. The campaign includes a pilot study from June 2023 and plans full campaigns for May-June 2024-2025. Datasets are hosted by NASA's OB_DAAC and SeaBASS repository.

Use Cases

• Analyzing sea surface temperature (SST) increases and their influence on monsoon onset and intensity.
• Studying ocean stratification and mixed layer evolution to understand biological productivity cycles.
• Examining bio-optical and biogeochemical observations for carbon cycling studies.
• Validating operational monsoon forecast models with contemporary atmospheric and oceanographic measurements.
• Investigating the formation of boundary layers and warm water pools in the northern Arabian Sea.

Strengths

• Data is part of a structured, multi-year campaign with planned cruises in 2024 and 2025.
• Campaign is a funded collaboration between the Indian Ministry of Earth Sciences and the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
• Data is archived in NASA's SeaBASS repository with a DOI (10.5067/SeaBASS/PVST_NORTHERN_INDIAN_OCEAN/DATA001).

Limitations

• Specific column names, row counts, and dataset size are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on license information, reporting 'other-license-specified' and 'None'.
• The availability timeline for post-2023 data is conditional ('once data is available').

Provenance

Source

OB_DAAC (NASA) and SeaBASS repository.

Collection Method

Field campaign measurements from ship cruises in the Arabian Sea.

Time Range

June 2023 (pilot) to planned May-June 2025.

Freshness

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Geography

Northern Arabian Sea.