scholarly journals Influence of the Sea Surface Temperature in the Indian Ocean on the In-Phase Transition between the South Asian and North Australian Summer Monsoons

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongsheng Zhang ◽  
Tim Li
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
The South ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Australian Summer

scholarly journals The Years of El Niño, La Niña, and Interactions with the Tropical Indian Ocean

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (13) ◽  
pp. 2872-2880 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Meyers ◽  
Peter McIntosh ◽  
Lidia Pigot ◽  
Mike Pook
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
El Nino Southern Oscillation ◽  
La Nina ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Abstract The Indian Ocean zonal dipole is a mode of variability in sea surface temperature that seriously affects the climate of many nations around the Indian Ocean rim, as well as the global climate system. It has been the subject of increasing research, and sometimes of scientific debate concerning its existence/nonexistence and dependence/independence on/from the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, since it was first clearly identified in Nature in 1999. Much of the debate occurred because people did not agree on what years are the El Niño or La Niña years, not to mention the newly defined years of the positive or negative dipole. A method that identifies when the positive or negative extrema of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean dipole occur is proposed, and this method is used to classify each year from 1876 to 1999. The method is statistical in nature, but has a strong basis on the oceanic physical mechanisms that control the variability of the near-equatorial Indo-Pacific basin. Early in the study it was found that some years could not be clearly classified due to strong decadal variation; these years also must be recognized, along with the reason for their ambiguity. The sensitivity of the classification of years is tested by calculating composite maps of the Indo-Pacific sea surface temperature anomaly and the probability of below median Australian rainfall for different categories of the El Niño–Indian Ocean relationship.

scholarly journals Short-Term Variation of the Surface Flow Pattern South of Lombok Strait Observed from the Himawari-8 Sea Surface Temperature

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 1491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naokazu Taniguchi ◽  
Shinichiro Kida ◽  
Yuji Sakuno ◽  
Hidemi Mutsuda ◽  
Fadli Syamsudin
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Surface Flow ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Surface Velocity ◽  
Thermal Plume ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Flow Variation ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Spatial and temporal information on oceanic flow is fundamental to oceanography and crucial for marine-related social activities. This study attempts to describe the short-term surface flow variation in the area south of the Lombok Strait in the northern summer using the hourly Himawari-8 sea surface temperature (SST). Although the uncertainty of this temperature is relatively high (about 0.6 ∘ C), it could be used to discuss the flow variation with high spatial resolution because sufficient SST differences are found between the areas north and south of the strait. The maximum cross-correlation (MCC) method is used to estimate the surface velocity. The Himawari-8 SST clearly shows Flores Sea water intruding into the Indian Ocean with the high-SST water forming a warm thermal plume on a tidal cycle. This thermal plume flows southward at a speed of about 2 m / s . The Himawari-8 SST indicates a southward flow from the Lombok Strait to the Indian Ocean, which blocks the South Java Current flowing eastward along the southern coast of Nusa Tenggara. Although the satellite data is limited to the surface, we found it useful for understanding the spatial and temporal variations in the surface flow field.

Meridional Distribution of Surface CO2 along 67°E of the Indian Ocean

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong-Jin Kang ◽  
Sang-Hwa Choi ◽  
Daeyeon Kim ◽  
Gyeong-Mok Lee
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Sea Surface Salinity ◽  
Surface Seawater ◽  
Surface Salinity ◽  
The North ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
North And South

<p>Surface seawater carbon dioxide was observed from 3 °S to 27 °S along 67 °E of the Indian Ocean in April 2018 and 2019. Partial pressure of CO<sub>2</sub>(pCO<sub>2</sub>) in the surface seawater and the atmosphere were observed every two minutes using an underway CO2 measurement system (General Oceanics Model 8050) installed on R/V Isabu. Surface water temperature and salinity were measured as well. The pCO<sub>2</sub> was measured using Li-7000 NDIR. Standard gases were measured every 8 hours in five classes with concentrations of 0 µatm, 202 µatm, 350 µatm, 447 µatm, and 359.87 µatm. The fCO<sub>2</sub> of atmosphere remained nearly constant at 387 ± 2 µatm, but the surface seawater fCO<sub>2</sub> peaked at about 3 °S and tended to decrease toward the north and south. The distribution of fCO<sub>2</sub> in surface seawater according to latitude tends to be very similar to that of sea surface temperature. In order to investigate the factors that control the distribution of fCO<sub>2</sub> in surface seawater, we analyzed the sea surface temperature, sea surface salinity, and other factors. The effects of salinity are insignificant, and the surface fCO<sub>2</sub> distribution is mainly controlled by sea surface temperature and other factors that can be represented mainly by biological activity and mixing.</p>

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