Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal

This dataset includes physical properties of the upper ocean collected during field campaigns in the Bay of Bengal in July 2019 and August–September 2015. The data is used for the JPO paper "Modulation of Diurnal SST and Diurnal Warm Layer Variability by Salinity-Driven Stratification in the Bay of Bengal" and are derived from in-situ instrumentation and are organized into the following components: 1. D-BASIS (Drifting Buoy Air-Sea Interaction System)– July 2019 Surface Meteorological Data:Files are named Met_DX.nc, where X = 1 to 3, corresponding to the mooring number.QC details are available at: WHOI UOP Instrumentation Wirewalker Profiler Data:Files are named WW_DX.nc, where X = 1 to 3.QC details: Zheng et al. (2022), Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, DOI link 2. FastCTD Transects – July 2019 Description: Five transects were conducted using a ship-towed FastCTD profiler. Files: Named TransectX_FastCTD_MISOBOB_2019.nc, where X = 1 to 5. Details: Transect coordinates and durations are described in the associated publication. 3. Drifter Deployments 2015:File: drifter_ASIRI_2015.ncNumber of drifters: 45QC references: Hormann et al. (2016); Essink et al. (2019) 2019:File: drifter_MISOBOB_2019.ncNumber of drifters: 28QC procedure: Outliers removed using a 3-standard deviation threshold in a 2-hour rolling window Data Structure and Format All datasets are provided as NetCDF (.nc) files. Each file includes the variables along with their units. Please refer to the metadata within each file for detailed variable descriptions and attribute information.