Measurements of aerosol bulk composition, optical depth, size distribution and the incoming solar radiation flux were carried out over the coastal waters of India, the Arabian sea and the tropical Indian Ocean during a cruise conducted in January 1996. Aerosol concentrations were relatively high throughout much of the cruise, even when the ship was at considerable distances from land. In this p...

Denitrification often occurs in the water column, underlying zones of intense productivity and decomposition in upwelling regions. In the denitrifying zone off the southwest coast of India, high concentrations of nitrite (>15 μM) and nitrous oxide (>500 nM) have been reported near the sediment-water interface (<80 m). We investigated the chemical and molecular indicators of denitrification alon...

Four new species and a new genus of lucinid bivalves are described from shallow and deeper waters in the Indian and West Pacific Oceans. The new genus Scabrilucina (subfamily Lucininae) includes the little-known Scabrilucina victorialis (Melvill, 1899) from the Arabian Sea and Scabrilucina vitrea (Deshayes, 1844) from the Andaman Sea as well as a new species Scabrilucina melvilli from the Torre...

The present paper discuss on spatial and temporal distribution of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) in the coastal and offshore waters of northeastern Arabian Sea, using Advanced Earth Observation Satellite OCTS data. The Chla concentration found high all along the western Indian coastal waters, with significant variations at Gulf of Cambay and Gulf of Kutch regions, ranging from 0.05 to 4.0 mg m. Several ...