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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ESSDD</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-267</article-id>
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<article-title>A High-Resolution Air-Sea Synoptic Observation Dataset from Drifting Buoys in the Bay of Bengal</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Wei</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Guihua</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Changlin</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chen</surname>
<given-names>Gengxin</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Weiqiang</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences &amp; Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocean-land-atmosphere Boundary Dynamics and Climate Change, Shanghai, 200438, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510301, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>21</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>10</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Wei Huang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
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<p>Mass and heat exchanges at the air-sea interface fundamentally drive global weather and climate systems. However, acquiring long-term, high-frequency, synchronous in-situ observations of both atmosphere and oceanic variables remains highly challenging, especially during extreme weather. This paper presents a high-resolution dataset from five air-sea drifting buoys deployed in the Bay of Bengal (BoB) in 2020 and 2022. These buoys captured precise, synchronous measurements of key meteorological parameters (air temperature, sea-level pressure, wind speed and direction, and relative humidity) alongside sea surface temperature. The dataset is typically sampled hourly; however, the sampling was increased to 5-minute intervals during tropical cyclones Nivar, Burevi, Four and Asani. This high-frequency dataset offers invaluable in-situ records for studying diurnal variations and fine-scale processes in the BoB. Furthermore, it provides critical observational data to advance our understanding of air-sea coupling, validate high-frequency satellite products, and improve parameterizations in regional numerical weather prediction models under extreme conditions.</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
<award-id>42288101</award-id>
<award-id>41949910</award-id>
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<funding-source>Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality</funding-source>
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