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 …

Atmosphere‐ocean coupled processes in the Madden‐Julian oscillation

CA DeMott, NP Klingaman… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Madden‐Julian oscillation (MJO) is a convectively coupled 30–70 day
(intraseasonal) tropical atmospheric mode that drives variations in global weather but which …

Annual cycle of the South Indian Ocean (Seychelles‐Chagos) thermocline ridge in a regional ocean model

JC Hermes, CJC Reason - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The presence of an upwelling “dome”‐like feature in the thermocline depth at 55° E–65° E,
5° S–12° S in the southwest tropical Indian Ocean (SWTIO) has been suggested in earlier …

Diurnally modulated cumulus moistening in the preonset stage of the Madden–Julian oscillation during DYNAMO

JH Ruppert Jr, RH Johnson - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2015 - journals.ametsoc.org
Atmospheric soundings, radar, and air–sea flux measurements collected during Dynamics of
the Madden–Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) are employed to study MJO convective onset (ie …

Supplement to cirene: Air—sea interactions in the seychelles—chagos thermocline ridge region

J Vialard, JP Duvel, MJ Mcphaden… - Bulletin of the …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Abstract The Vasco—Cirene field experiment, in January—February 2007, targeted the
Seychelles—Chagos thermocline ridge (SCTR) region, with the main purpose of …

Near‐surface ocean temperature

B Ward - Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The first open ocean deployment of the Skin Depth Experimental Profiler (SkinDeEP) was
from the R/V Melville in the Gulf of California during the Marine Optical Characterization …

Intraseasonal SST-precipitation relationship and its spatial variability over the tropical summer monsoon region

M Roxy, Y Tanimoto, B Preethi, P Terray, R Krishnan - Climate Dynamics, 2013 - Springer
The SST-precipitation relationship in the intraseasonal variability (ISV) over the Asian
monsoon region is examined using recent high quality satellite data and simulations from a …

Impact of barrier layer on winter‐spring variability of the southeastern Arabian Sea

S Masson, JJ Luo, G Madec, J Vialard… - Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, we use a coupled model to evaluate the effect of shallow salinity
stratification on the sea surface temperature (SST) and on the monsoon onset in the …

Diagnosing ocean feedbacks to the MJO: SST‐modulated surface fluxes and the moist static energy budget

CA DeMott, JJ Benedict, NP Klingaman… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The composite effect of intraseasonal sea surface temperature (SST) variability on the
Madden‐Julian Oscillation (MJO) is studied in the context of the column‐integrated moist …

Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature perturbations associated with intraseasonal oscillations of tropical convection

JP Duvel, J Vialard - Journal of Climate, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
Since the ISV of the convection is an intermittent phenomenon, the local mode analysis
(LMA) technique is used to detect only the ensemble of intraseasonal events that are well …