Seasonal Variability of Phytoplankton Population in the Brahmani Estuary of Orissa, India by S Palleyi, RN Kar, CR Panda

“…This study was carried out at the Brahmani Estuary (East coast, Bay Of Bengal, India) from March 2007 to November 2007. …”
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A Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor: Geoeconomic and Geostrategic Implications by Dr Md. Safiqul Islam

“…It also links the Bay of Bengal through Bangladesh and Myanmar. Significantly, the corridor will form at thriving economic belt that will promote common development of this sub-region with the linkages of transport, energy and telecommunications networks. …”
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Do phytoplankton communities evolve through a self-regulatory abundance-diversity relationship? by Roy, S

“…By analysis of the abundance data of marine phytoplankton collected from the North-West coast of the Bay of Bengal, an empirical relationship between the abundance of the potential toxin-producing species and the species diversity of the non-toxic phytoplankton is formulated. …”

Geomorphology of the Ganges fluvial system in the Himalayan foreland: an update by Rajiv Sinha

“…The Ganges is one of the largest fluvial systems in the world rising from the loftiest Himalaya and draining into the Bay of Bengal. Together with the Brahmaputra, it also constitutes the largest delta in the world before finally meeting the sea. …”
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Description of three new species previously identified as Stolephorus bengalensis (Dutt & Babu Rao, 1959) or Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg, 1933 and a re-description of... by Harutaka Hata, Sébastien Lavoué, Hiroyuki Motomura

“…Examination of numerous specimens characterised by predorsal scute, long maxilla, indented preopercle and pelvic scute lacking a spine and previously identified as Stolephorus bengalensis (Dutt & Babu Rao, 1959) or Stolephorus insularis Hardenberg, 1933, revealed four distinct species, true S. bengalensis (distributed from the Bay of Bengal to Pakistan) and three new species, viz., Stolephorus eldorado sp. nov. …”
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Major Floods and Tropical Cyclones over Bangladesh: Clustering from ENSO Timescales by Md Wahiduzzaman

“…The pre-monsoon cases are under neutral (developing La Niña) or El Niño and the post-monsoon cases are under La Niña, consistent with climatology studies that La Niña is favorable to have more intense TCs over the Bay of Bengal.…”
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Coastal Vulnerability Assessment of Kanthi Coast, India by the Geospatial Technology by Nayan Dey, Payel Das

“…The 45 km stretched coast land is associated with a dense population and faces the tropical cyclone emerging from the Bay of Bengal. The prime objective of the paper is to assess the coastal vulnerability of the study area. …”
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Understanding Atmospheric Convection Using Large Eddy Simulation by Gaurav Dogra, Anupam Dewan, Sandeep Sahany

“…Convective transfer of moisture and heat in the form of turbulent fluxes over the Bay of Bengal (BoB) has not been explored much and is not resolved in global and regional climate models (GCMs and RCMs) due to the coarser grid resolutions used. …”
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Decolonial Myths and Demi-gods of the Tropics: The More-than-Human Worlds of Manasa and Olokun by Sunu Rose Joseph, Shashikantha Koudur

“…In Gun Island, Manasa, the quintessential nagini is a folk deity of fear-based Nature worship from the Bay of Bengal, and an outsider to the established pantheon of Hindu gods. …”
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Moving Beyond the Refugee Law Paradigm by Jaya Ramji-Nogales

“…The migration “emergencies” at the southern U.S. border and the southern borders of the European Union, as well as the “crisis” in the Bay of Bengal, have drawn global attention to the dire inadequacies of the international refugee regime, even as extended through various principles of non-refoulement, in governing modern migration flows. …”
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Introduction to the special issue on the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the Indian Ocean tsunami by Satake, Kenji, Sieh, Kerry, Bilek, Susan L.

“…Sadly, what is currently regarded as the third largest earthquake in recorded history led to the worst tsunami disaster in recorded history, with the loss of more than 200,000 lives and devastation throughout the Bay of Bengal. About three months later, on 28 March 2005, the Nias–Simeulue earthquake, near the southern end of the 2004 rupture, shocked the region again. …”
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A new multibranch model for metals in river systems: Impacts and control of tannery wastes in Bangladesh by Whitehead, PG, Mimouni, Z, Butterfield, D, Bussi, G, Hossain, MA, Peters, R, Shawal, S, Holdship, P, Rampley, CPN, Jin, L, Ager, D

“…It is shown that the new effluent treatment plant at Savar needs to significantly improve its operation and treatment capability in order to alleviate metal pollution in the downstream Dhaleshwari River System and also protect the Meghna River System that falls in the Bay of Bengal.…”

Interaction among non-toxic phytoplankton, toxic phytoplankton and zooplankton: inferences from field observations. by Roy, S, Bhattacharya, S, Das, P, Chattopadhyay, J

“…We explore the mutual dependencies and interactions among different groups of species of the plankton population, based on an analysis of the long-term field observations carried out by our group in the North-West coast of the Bay of Bengal. The plankton community is structured into three groups of species, namely, non-toxic phytoplankton (NTP), toxic phytoplankton (TPP) and zooplankton. …”

Highly differentiated population structure of a Mangrove species, Bruguiera gymnorhiza (Rhizophoraceae) revealed by one nuclear GapCp and one chloroplast intergenic spacer trnF–trn... by Sumiko, Minobe, Shingo, Fukui, Rumiko, Saiki, Tadashi, Kajita, Suchitra, Changtragoon, Ab Shukor, Nor Aini, Mohamad, Abdul Latiff, Ramesh, B. R., Osamu, Koizumi, Tsuneyuki, Yamazaki

“…Little polymorphism was found within each of the three geographical regions, Pacific Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. Throughout the vast regions east…”

Reconciling drainage and receiving basin signatures of the Godavari River system by M. O. Usman, F. M. S. A. Kirkels, H. M. Zwart, S. Basu, C. Ponton, T. M. Blattmann, M. Ploetze, N. Haghipour, N. Haghipour, C. McIntyre, C. McIntyre, C. McIntyre, F. Peterse, M. Lupker, L. Giosan, T. I. Eglinton

“…The modern-day Godavari River transports large amounts of sediment (170 Tg per year) and terrestrial organic carbon (OC_terr; 1.5 Tg per year) from peninsular India to the Bay of Bengal. The flux and nature of OC_terr is considered to have varied in response to past climate and human forcing. …”
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Effects of mountain uplift on autumn rainfall over Southwest China by Qi Wang, Jian Liu, Mi Yan

“…Dynamically, with the Tibetan Plateau uplift, the upstream westerly is split into two branches, and the southern branch gets enhanced gradually and brings more water vapor from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal into the Southwest China region (the summer mode). …”
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Dynamics of Pulicat Lake mouth analysis using geospatial data, east coast of India: Implications to socio-economic scenarios by K. Nagalaksmi, Madri Pramod Kumar, N. Jayaraju, T. Lakshmi Prasad, B. Lakshmanna, G. Sreenivasulu

“…Pulicat Lake sits beside the Bay of Bengal so, the study on the mouth is vital. The investigations were carried out by using multi-temporal satellite imageries of IRS P6, LISS III data for four years viz., 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013. …”
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Studies on Estuary of Thamirabarani River, Tamilnadu, India by Suresh P.K., Surendar N., Sundaravadivelu R., Dhanasekar K.

“…The river originates from the eastern side of the west coast and confluences with Bay of Bengal at a village called Punnakayal in Tuticorin district. …”
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Contribution of Wind Speed and Sea-Air Humidity Difference to the Latent Heat Flux-SST Relationship by Xiaoshan Sun, Renguang Wu

“…The contribution of the wind speed term to the SST effect varies regionally: It is supplementary in the midlatitude frontal zones in winter and summer and in the Arabian Sea in summer, but it is opposite in the Philippine Sea in winter and summer and in the South China Sea and Bay of Bengal in summer. The contribution of the wind speed term to the LHF effect is confined to short time scales in most of the tropical Indo-western Pacific regions.…”
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Ciguatera in the Indian Ocean with Special Insights on the Arabian Sea and Adjacent Gulf and Seas: A Review by Nazima Habibi, Saif Uddin, Marie-Yasmine Dechraoui Bottein, Mohd Faizuddin

“…However, historically, their properties and presence have been poorly documented in the Indian Ocean (including the Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and the Gulf). A higher occurrence of these microorganisms will proportionately increase the likelihood of CTXs entering the food chain, posing a severe threat to human seafood consumers. …”
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