The northern Indian Ocean comprises two semienclosed basins: the Bay of Bengal (BoB) in the east and the Arabian Sea in the west (Figure 1a). The BoB stands out in the tropical Ocean because of the low sea surface salinity, which is attributed to substantial amount of freshwater from river discharges and excessive rainfall over evaporation (
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