Abstract The diurnal cycle is a dominant mode of sea surface temperature (SST) variability in trop-ical oceans, that influences air-sea interaction and climate processes. Diurnal variability of SST generally ranges from ...

The north Indian Ocean is one of the highly productive regions among the tropical oceans. Being a prominent monsoon regime, the basin exists as a highly dynamic region charac- terised by intense mixing and upwelling and ...