Drivers and impacts of Eastern African rainfall variability

PI Palmer, CM Wainwright, B Dong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Eastern Africa exhibits bimodal rainfall consisting of long rains (March–May) and short rains
(October–December), changes in which have profound socioeconomic and environmental …

Diazotrophy in the Indian Ocean: Current understanding and future perspectives

S Chowdhury, E Raes, C Hörstmann… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dinitrogen (N2) fixation provides the major source of reactive nitrogen in the open ocean,
sustaining biological productivity. The Indian Ocean (IO) covers 22% of the ocean surface …

[HTML][HTML] Marine heatwaves in the Arabian Sea

A Chatterjee, G Anil, LR Shenoy - Ocean Science, 2022 - os.copernicus.org
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) are prolonged warm sea condition events that can have a
destructive impact on marine ecosystems. The documentation of MHWs and assessment of …

An updated estimate of the Indonesian Throughflow geostrophic transport: Interannual variability and salinity effect

Y Guo, Y Li, L Cheng, G Chen, Q Liu… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
While the pivotal role of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) in the global ocean circulation and
climate has been widely recognized, accurate estimation of its volume transport based on …

Dissolved PAHs impacted by air-sea interactions: Net volatilization and strong surface current transport in the Eastern Indian Ocean

M Liu, H Zheng, M Chen, J Liang, M Duan, H Du… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Indian Ocean, the marine fate of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) is
impacted by the unique air-sea interactions with great monsoon characters. By collecting …

Depth-dependent microbial metagenomes sampled in the northeastern Indian Ocean

X Wang, M Zain Ul Arifeen, S Hou, Q Zheng - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The northeastern Indian Ocean exhibits distinct hydrographic characteristics
influenced by various local and remote forces. Variations in these driving factors may alter …

Using a deep-learning approach to infer and forecast the Indonesian Throughflow transport from sea surface height

L **n, S Hu, F Wang, W **e, D Hu… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) connects the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans and is
critical to the regional and global climate systems. Previous research indicates that the Indo …

Quantifying the contribution of salinity effect to the seasonal variability of the Makassar Strait throughflow

X Lu, S Hu, C Guan, M Li, J Sprintall… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Makassar Strait throughflow (MST) constitutes a significant component of the
Indonesian throughflow (ITF) and plays a pivotal role in the interbasin exchange between …

Phytoplankton carbon biomass: Insights from the eastern Indian Ocean

S Guo, F Wang, J Liang, K Zhang, X Sun - Deep Sea Research Part I …, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of phytoplankton carbon biomass is limited but has the potential to provide
important insights into several oceanographic processes, such as the vertical carbon export …

Sediment provenances shift driven by sea level and Indian monsoon in the southern Bay of Bengal since the last glacial maximum

S Liu, W Ye, H Zhang, P Cao, J Li, X Sun… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The Tibetan Plateau uplift has induced the formation of the largest sediment source-sink
system in the northeast Indian Ocean, which has become an ideal region for investigating …