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1. INTRODUCTION
Inertial currents in the ocean rotate clockwise (anticlockwise) in the northern (southern) hemisphere
with period T= 2p/2V sin u; where V is the angular
velocity of earth and u the local latitude of observation (Perkins, 1972). The inertial currents were ob-
Table I. Mean latitude, mean inertial frequency and the variation in the inertial frequency due to the meridional excursions of the individual
buoys within a selected latitude band.
Latitude band
Buoy ID
Mean latitude
Mean inertial
frequency (cpd)
Variance of inertial
frequency (cpd)
0510 N
0510 N
0510 S
0510 S
05-10 N
0510 N
0510 N
0510 N
1015 N
1015 S
1015 S
1015 N
1015 N
1015 N
1015 N
1015 S
1015 S
1015 N
1015 N
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 S
1015 N
02288
04852
04865
04866
04868
09081
09080
15705
15705
11353
11352
15702
15708
11353
11355
06131
21140
21843
21854
21860
21900
21903
21926
21927
21929
21933
21952
23462
25829
7.106
8.203
8.028
6.296
8.884
6.324
8.253
8.096
12.663
12.706
11.885
12.065
13.978
12.542
12.119
13.148
12.950
11.509
12.716
12.572
13.053
12.030
12.757
12.482
12.895
11.896
10.481
13.806
11.106
0.247
0.285
0.279
0.219
0.309
0.220
0.287
0.282
0.438
0.440
0.412
0.418
0.483
0.434
0.420
0.455
0.448
0.399
0.440
0.435
0.452
0.417
0.442
0.432
0.446
0.412
0.364
0.477
0.385
0.002
0.001
0.001
0.000
0.001
0.002
0.001
0.000
0.002
0.002
0.002
0.001
0.000
0.002
0.002
0.000
0.002
0.001
0.002
0.003
0.002
0.002
0.002
0.001
0.002
0.003
0.000
0.002
0.001
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3. RESULTS
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Figure 4. Zonal component (u) of inertial current and atmospheric pressure from buoys (a) 11352 and (b) 11353. A band pass
filter in time domain was used for the extraction of inertial
currents.
Figure 5. (a) Trajectory of the buoy during the passage of a
cyclone over the Bay of Bengal. The Indian Daily Weather Report
published by India Meteorological Department, New Delhi for
the period 22 25 November 1995 was used to construct the track
of the cyclone. The numbers in parenthesis above the dates note
the mean sea level pressure. (b) The enlarged view of the buoy
trajectory.
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