Interannual Variability of Equatorial Eastern Indian Ocean Upwelling: Local versus Remote Forcing

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  • Gengxin Chen
    State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
  • Weiqing Han
    Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
  • Yuanlong Li
    Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
  • Dongxiao Wang
    State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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公開日
2016-03
DOI
  • 10.1175/jpo-d-15-0117.1
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American Meteorological Society

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The equatorial eastern Indian Ocean (EIO) upwelling occurs in the Indian Ocean warm pool, differing from the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic upwelling that occurs in the cold tongue. By analyzing observations and performing ocean model experiments, this paper quantifies the remote versus local forcing in causing interannual variability of the equatorial EIO upwelling from 2001 to 2011 and elucidates the associated processes. For all seasons, interannual variability of thermocline depth in the EIO, as an indicator of upwelling, is dominated by remote forcing from equatorial Indian Ocean winds, which drive Kelvin waves that propagate along the equator and subsequently along the Sumatra–Java coasts. Upwelling has prominent signatures in sea surface temperature (SST) and chlorophyll-<jats:italic>a</jats:italic> concentration but only in boreal summer–fall (May–October). Local forcing plays a larger role than remote forcing in producing interannual SST anomaly (SSTA). During boreal summer–fall, when the mean thermocline is relatively shallow, SSTA is primarily driven by the upwelling process, with comparable contributions from remote and local forcing effects. In contrast, during boreal winter–spring (November–April), when the mean thermocline is relatively deep, SSTA is controlled by surface heat flux and decoupled from thermocline variability. Advection affects interannual SSTA in all cases. The remote and local winds that drive the interannual variability of the equatorial EIO upwelling are closely associated with Indian Ocean dipole events and to a lesser degree with El Niño–Southern Oscillation.</jats:p>

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