Near-surface ocean kinetic energy spectra and small scale intermittency from ship data in the Bay of Bengal

Jai Sukhatme, Dipanjan Chaudhuri, Jennifer MacKinnon +2

Horizontal currents in the Bay of Bengal were measured on eight cruises covering a total of 8600 $km$ using a 300 $kHz$ Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP). The cruises are di…