Bay of Bengal: References & Edit History

A wealth of oceanographic and meteorological information on the Bay of Bengal is available in United States Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center, Sailing Directions (Enroute) for India and the Bay of Bengal, 5th ed. (1994); and Great Britain Hydrographic Dept., Bay of Bengal Pilot, 10th ed. (1978), and its 12th supplement (2004). Geology and hydrology are dealt with in N.K. Panikkar and R. Jayaraman, “Biological and Oceanographic Differences Between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal as Observed from the Indian Region,” Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 64:231–240 (1966). More recent studies include O.P. Singh, Changes in the Frequencies of Cyclonic Storms and Depressions Over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea (1999), on climatic conditions; and V. Ittekkot et al. (eds.), The Bay of Bengal, on deep-sea research. Historical discussions are found in Om Prakash and Denys Lombard (eds.), Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal:1500–1800 (1999), a collection of essays.