Interannual variability in the Biannual Rossby waves in the tropical Indian Ocean and its relation to Indian Ocean Dipole and El Nino forcing

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-40

  Gnanaseelan, Chellappan ^a   Vaid, Bakshi Hardeep ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

El Nino; Indian Ocean Dipole; Rossby waves

Indexed keywords

BAROCLINIC; BOUNDARY VARIATIONS; CHARACTERISTIC LINES; DOWN-WELLING; EASTERN EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; EKMAN PUMPING; EL NINO; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FORMATION MECHANISM; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLE; INDIAN OCEAN DIPOLES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERNAL DYNAMICS; PHASE SPEED; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; SEA-SURFACE HEIGHT ANOMALIES; SIMPLE OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATIONS; TOPEX/POSEIDON; TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BAROCLINIC WAVE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOWNWELLING; EKMAN PUMPING; EL NINO; HADLEY CELL; HEAT TRANSFER; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THERMOCLINE; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 77649239311     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-009-0236-z     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. R Alan D Chambers W Drosdowsky H Hendon N Latif N Nicholls I Smith R Stone Y Tourre 2001 Is there an Indian Ocean dipole, and is it independent of the El Niño-southern oscillation? CLIVAR Exchanges 6 3 18 22
2. Annamalai H, Murtugudde R (2004) Role of the Indian Ocean in regional climate variability. Earth's climate: the ocean-atmosphere interaction. Geophys Monogr, No. 147, Amer Geophys Union, 213-246
3. H Annamalai J Potemra R Murtugudde JP McCreary 2003 Indian Ocean Zonal Mode: its decadal modulation and links to the Pacific J Clim 18 302 319 10.1175/JCLI-3268.1
4. A Baquero-Bernal M Latif S Legutke 2002 On dipole like variability of sea surface temperature in the tropical Indian Ocean J Clim 15 1358 1368 10.1175/1520-0442(2002)015<1358:ODVOSS>2.0.CO;2
5. SK Behera PS Salvekar T Yamagata 2000 Simulation of interannual SST variability in the tropical Indian Ocean J Clim 13 3487 3489 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3487:SOISVI>2.0.CO;2
6. Benadra R (1997) Topex/Poseidon Merged GDR generation user's handbook. JPL Rep. D-11007, Jet propul Lab Pasadena, California
7. JA Carton BS Giese SA Grodsky 2005 Sea level rise and the warming of the oceans in the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) ocean reanalysis J Geophys Res 110 C09006 10.1029/2004JC002817 10.1029/2004JC002817 (Pubitemid 41594887)
8. JS Chowdary C Gnanaseelan 2007 Basin-wide warming of the Indian Ocean during El Nino and Indian Ocean dipole years Int J Climatol 27 1421 1438 10.1002/joc.1482 (Pubitemid 47394020)
9. JS Chowdary C Gnanaseelan SP Xie 2009 Westward propagation of barrier layer formation in the 2006-07 Rossby wave event over the tropical southwest Indian Ocean Geophys Res Lett 36 L04607 10.1029/2008GL036642 10.1029/2008GL036642
10. DL Codiga P Cornillon 2003 Effects of geographic variation in vertical mode structure on the sea surface topography, energy, and wind forcing of Baroclinic Rossby Waves J Phys Oceanogr 33 1219 1230 10.1175/1520-0485(2003) 033<1219:EOGVIV>2.0.CO;2 (Pubitemid 36810571)
11. M Feng G Meyers 2003 Interannual variability in the tropical Indian Ocean: a two-year time-scale of Indian Ocean Dipole Deep-Sea Res II 50 2263 2284 10.1016/S0967-0645(03)00056-0 (Pubitemid 36738438)
12. Gnanaseelan C, Vaid BH, Polito PS (2008) Impact of Biannual Rossby waves on the Indian Ocean Dipole. IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Letters. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.919505
13. Z Guan A Karumuri T Yamagata 2003 Summertime response of tropical atmosphere to the Indian Ocean dipole sea surface temperature anomalies J. Meteorological Society of Japan 3 533 561 10.2151/jmsj.81.533 (Pubitemid 37400238)
14. V Krishnamurthy BP Kirtman 2001 Variability of the Indian Ocean: relation to monsoon and ENSO COLA Rep 107 39
15. T Li B Wang CP Chang YS Zhang 2003 A theory for the Indian Ocean dipole mode J Atmos Sci 15 1733 1753
16. Y Masumoto G Meyers 1998 Forced Rossby waves in the southern tropical Indian Ocean J. Geophys. Res. 103 C12 27589 27602 10.1029/98JC02546
17. R Murtugudde JP Mccreary AJ Busalacchis 2000 A oceanic processes associated with anomalous events in the Indian Ocean with relevance to 1997-1998 J. Geophys. Res 105 3295 3306 10.1029/1999JC900294
18. C Perigaud P Delecluse 1993 Interannual sea-level variations in the tropical Indian Ocean from Geosat and shallow-water simulations J Phys Oceanogr 23 1916 1934 10.1175/1520-0485(1993)023<1916:ISLVIT>2.0.CO;2
19. Philander SG (1989) El Nino, La Nina and the southern oscillation. International Geoscience series, pp 119, ISBN 0-12-553235
20. PS Polito P Cornillon 1997 Long barocilinic Rossby waves detected by Topex/Poseidon J Geophys Res 102 3 215 3,235
21. PS Polito WT Liu 2003 Global characterization of Rossby waves at several spectral bands J Geophys Res 108 C1 3018 0.1029/2000JC000607 10.1029/2000JC000607
22. PS Polito OT Sato WT Liu 2000 Characterization and validation of the heat storage variability from TOPEX/POSEIDON at four oceanographic sites J Geophys Res 105 C7 16911 16921 10.1029/1999JC000048
23. SA Rao SK Behera 2005 Subsurface influence on SST in the tropical Indian Ocean: structure and interannual variability Dyn Atmos Ocean 39 103 135 10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2004.10.014 (Pubitemid 40553750)
24. AS Rao SK Behera Y Masumoto T Yamagata 2002 Interannual variability in the subsurface tropical Indian Ocean Deep-Sea Res. II 49 1549 1572 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00158-8 (Pubitemid 34294450)
25. NA Rayner DE Parker EB Horton CK Folland LV Alexander DP Rowell EC Kent A Kaplan 2003 Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century J Geophys Res 108 D14 4407 10.1029/2002JD002670 10.1029/2002JD002670
26. NH Saji BN Goswami PN Vinayachandran T Yamagata 1999 A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean Nature 401 360 363
27. B Thompson C Gnanaseelan PS Salvekar 2006 Variability in the Indian Ocean circulation and salinity and its impact on SST anomalies during dipole events J Mar Res 64 853 880 10.1357/002224006779698350 (Pubitemid 46259942)
28. B Thompson C Gnanaseelan A Parekh PS Salvekar 2009 A model study on oceanic processes during the Indian Ocean Dipole termination Meteor Atmos Phys 105 17 27 10.1007/s00703-009-0033-8 10.1007/s00703-009-0033-8
29. BH Vaid C Gnanaseelan PS Polito 2007 Influence of Pacifc on Southern Indian Ocean Rossby Waves Pure Appl Geophys 164 1765 1785 10.1007/s00024-007- 0230-7 (Pubitemid 47335406)
30. PN Vinayachandran NH Saji T Yamagata 1999 Response of the equatorial Indian Ocean to an unusual wind event during 1994 Geophys Res Lett 26 1613 1616 10.1029/1999GL900179 (Pubitemid 30134972)
31. PN Vinayachandran S Iizuka T Yamagata 2002 Indian Ocean Dipole mode events in an ocean general circulation model Deep-Sea Res. II 49 1573 1596 10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00157-6 (Pubitemid 34294451)
32. B Wang R Wu T Li 2003 Atmosphere-warm ocean interaction and its impact on Asian-Australian monsoon variability J Clim 16 1195 1211 10.1175/1520- 0442(2003)16<1195:AOIAII>2.0.CO;2 (Pubitemid 37164397)
33. PJ Webster AM Moore JP Loschnigg RR Leben 1999 Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997-98 Nature 401 357 360 10.1038/43848 (Pubitemid 29454954)
34. T Yamagata SK Behera SA Rao Z Guan K Ashok NH Saji 2002 The Indian Ocean dipole: a physical entity CLIVAR Exchang 24 15 18