Abstract
The U.S. Office of Naval Research’s Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations in the Bay of Bengal (MISO-BoB) program was motivated by the need for high-quality, high-resolution observations that span from the upper ocean across the air–sea interface and atmospheric boundary layer into the troposphere during active and break periods of the summer monsoon. The aim of MISO-BoB and associated programs, India’s Ocean Mixing and Monsoons and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) Role of the Indian Ocean on Monsoon Intraseasonal Oscillations, is to understand the ocean’s influence on the coupled ocean–atmosphere signal at different spatial and temporal scales. Data from both the 2018 and 2019 field seasons are being integrated with process-based models and regional simulations to determine pathways for improvements in representation of the coupled air–sea response. This dataset contains curated data from multiple cruises in the Bay of Bengal.