Indian Ocean circulation and climate variability

FA Schott, SP **e, JP McCreary Jr - Reviews of Geophysics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the Indian Ocean (IO) has been discovered to have a much larger impact on
climate variability than previously thought. This paper reviews climate phenomena and …

The ocean

O Hoegh-Guldberg, R Cai, ES Poloczanska… - 2014 - munin.uit.no
The Ocean plays a central role in Earth's climate and has absorbed 93% of the extra energy
from the enhanced greenhouse effect and approximately 30% of anthropogenic carbon …

Impact of the Indian Ocean dipole on the relationship between the Indian monsoon rainfall and ENSO

K Ashok, Z Guan, T Yamagata - Geophysical research letters, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of the recently discovered Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) on the interannual
variability of the Indian summer monsoon rainfall (ISMR) has been investigated for the …

[HTML][HTML] RAMA: the research moored array for African–Asian–Australian monsoon analysis and prediction

MJ Mcphaden, G Meyers, K Ando… - Bulletin of the …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Indian Ocean is unique among the three tropical ocean basins in that it is blocked at 25
N by the Asian landmass. Seasonal heating and cooling of the land sets the stage for …

Climate impacts on Indian agriculture

K Krishna Kumar, RK Kumar, RG Ashrit… - International Journal …, 2004 - repository.ias.ac.in
Agriculture (arguably the backbone of India's economy) is highly dependent on the spatial
and temporal distribution of monsoon rainfall. This paper presents an analysis of crop …

Malaria resurgence in the East African highlands: temperature trends revisited

M Pascual, JA Ahumada, LF Chaves… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The incidence of malaria in the East African highlands has increased since the end of the
1970s. The role of climate change in the exacerbation of the disease has been controversial …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of different types of El Niño on the East Asian climate: Focus on ENSO cycles

Y Yuan, S Yang - Journal of Climate, 2012 - journals.ametsoc.org
Using multiple datasets and a partial correlation method, the authors analyze the different
impacts of eastern Pacific (EP) and central Pacific (CP) El Niño on East Asian climate …

[PDF][PDF] Observed changes in southwest monsoon rainfall over India during 1901–2011

P Guhathakurta, M Rajeevan, DR Sikka, A Tyagi - Int. J. Climatol, 2015 - researchgate.net
The trends and epochal variability of southwest monsoon over the country as a whole and
four homogeneous regions are examined using monthly rainfall data (1901–2011) of 640 …

Interdecadal variability of the relationship between the Indian Ocean zonal mode and East African coastal rainfall anomalies

CO Clark, PJ Webster, JE Cole - Journal of Climate, 2003 - journals.ametsoc.org
The variance of the rainfall during the October–November–December (OND)“short rain”
season along the coast in Kenya and Tanzania correlates strongly with sea surface …

Abnormal monsoon years and their control on erosion and sediment flux in the high, arid northwest Himalaya

B Bookhagen, RC Thiede, MR Strecker - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2005 - Elsevier
The interplay between topography and Indian summer monsoon circulation profoundly
controls precipitation distribution, sediment transport, and river discharge along the …