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The IOD also affects the strength of monsoons over the Indian subcontinent. A significant positive IOD occurred in 1997–98, with another in 2006. The IOD is one aspect of the general cycle of global climate, interacting with similar phenomena like the [[El Niño-Southern Oscillation]] (ENSO) in the [[Pacific Ocean]].
The IOD also affects the strength of monsoons over the Indian subcontinent. A significant positive IOD occurred in 1997–98, with another in 2006. The IOD is one aspect of the general cycle of global climate, interacting with similar phenomena like the [[El Niño-Southern Oscillation]] (ENSO) in the [[Pacific Ocean]].


The IOD phenomenon was first identified by climate researchers in 1999.<ref>{{harvnb|Saji|Goswami|Vinayachandran|Yamagata|1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Webster, P.J.; Moore, A.M:Loschnigg, J.P., Leben, R.P.|title=Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98 |journal=Letters to nature | doi=10.1038/43848 |volume=401 |pages=356–360}}</ref>
The IOD phenomenon was first identified by climate researchers in 1999.<ref>{{harvnb|Saji|Goswami|Vinayachandran|Yamagata|1999}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Webster, P.J.; Moore, A.M:Loschnigg, J.P., Leben, R.P.|title=Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98 |journal=Letters to Nature | doi=10.1038/43848 |volume=401 |pages=356–360}}</ref>


An average of four each positive-negative IOD events occur during each 30-year period with each event lasting around six months. However, there have been 12 positive IODs since 1980 and no negative events from 1992 until a strong negative event in late 2010. The occurrence of consecutive positive IOD events is extremely rare with only two such events recorded, 1913–1914 and the three consecutive events from 2006 to 2008 which preceded the [[Black Saturday bushfires]]. Modelling suggests that consecutive positive events could be expected to occur twice over a 1,000-year period. The positive IOD in 2007 evolved together with [[La Niña]], which is a very rare phenomenon that has happened only once in the available historical records (in 1967).<ref name="Argo">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cai W, Pan A, Roemmich D, Cowan T, Guo X |title=Argo profiles a rare occurrence of three consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole events, 2006–2008 |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=36 |pages=L037038 |year=2009 |doi=10.1029/2008GL037038 |url=http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008GL037038.shtml |bibcode = 2009GeoRL..3608701C }}</ref><ref name="Cooper">{{cite web | last = Cooper | first = Dani | date = March 25, 2009 | title = Bushfire origins lie in Indian Ocean | work = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | url = http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/25/2525580.htm | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Perry">{{cite web | last = Perry | first = Michael | date = February 5, 2009 | title = Indian Ocean linked to Australian droughts | work = [[Reuters]]| url = https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5133FL20090205 | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Rosebro">{{cite web | last = Rosebro | first = Jack | date = February 12, 2009 | title = Australi Reels From Split Weather System | work = Green Car Congress | url = http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/02/australia-reels/comments/page/2/ | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref> A strong negative IOD developed in October 2010,<ref>{{cite web |title=Seasonal Prediction: ENSO forecast, Indian Ocean forecast, Regional forecast |work=Low-latitude Climate Prediction Research |publisher=JAMSTEC |url=http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/research/d1/iod/sintex_f1_announcements_s.html.en}}</ref> which, coupled with a strong and concurrent La Niña, caused the [[2010–2011 Queensland floods]] and the [[2011 Victorian floods]].
An average of four each positive-negative IOD events occur during each 30-year period with each event lasting around six months. However, there have been 12 positive IODs since 1980 and no negative events from 1992 until a strong negative event in late 2010. The occurrence of consecutive positive IOD events is extremely rare with only two such events recorded, 1913–1914 and the three consecutive events from 2006 to 2008 which preceded the [[Black Saturday bushfires]]. Modelling suggests that consecutive positive events could be expected to occur twice over a 1,000-year period. The positive IOD in 2007 evolved together with [[La Niña]], which is a very rare phenomenon that has happened only once in the available historical records (in 1967).<ref name="Argo">{{cite journal |vauthors=Cai W, Pan A, Roemmich D, Cowan T, Guo X |title=Argo profiles a rare occurrence of three consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole events, 2006–2008 |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=36 |pages=L037038 |year=2009 |doi=10.1029/2008GL037038 |url=http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008GL037038.shtml |bibcode = 2009GeoRL..3608701C }}</ref><ref name="Cooper">{{cite web | last = Cooper | first = Dani | date = March 25, 2009 | title = Bushfire origins lie in Indian Ocean | work = [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | url = http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/03/25/2525580.htm | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Perry">{{cite web | last = Perry | first = Michael | date = February 5, 2009 | title = Indian Ocean linked to Australian droughts | work = [[Reuters]]| url = https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5133FL20090205 | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Rosebro">{{cite web | last = Rosebro | first = Jack | date = February 12, 2009 | title = Australi Reels From Split Weather System | work = Green Car Congress | url = http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/02/australia-reels/comments/page/2/ | accessdate = December 22, 2009 }}</ref> A strong negative IOD developed in October 2010,<ref>{{cite web |title=Seasonal Prediction: ENSO forecast, Indian Ocean forecast, Regional forecast |work=Low-latitude Climate Prediction Research |publisher=JAMSTEC |url=http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/research/d1/iod/sintex_f1_announcements_s.html.en}}</ref> which, coupled with a strong and concurrent La Niña, caused the [[2010–2011 Queensland floods]] and the [[2011 Victorian floods]].


In 2008, [[Nerilie Abram]] used coral records from the eastern and western Indian Ocean to construct a coral Dipole Mode Index extending back to 1846&nbsp;AD.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coral Dipole Mode Index, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology|url=ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/indian_ocean/mentawai2008.txt}}</ref> This extended perspective on IOD behaviour suggested that positive IOD events increased in strength and frequency during the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coral Dipole Mode Index, Abram et al. 2008, Nature Geoscience|url=http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v1/n12/abs/ngeo357.htmlt}}</ref>
In 2008, [[Nerilie Abram]] used coral records from the eastern and western Indian Ocean to construct a coral Dipole Mode Index extending back to 1846&nbsp;AD.<ref>{{cite web |title=Coral Dipole Mode Index, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology|url=ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/paleo/coral/indian_ocean/mentawai2008.txt}}</ref> This extended perspective on IOD behaviour suggested that positive IOD events increased in strength and frequency during the 20th century.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Abram|first1=Nerilie J.|last2=Gagan|first2=Michael K.|last3=Cole|first3=Julia E.|last4=Hantoro|first4=Wahyoe S.|last5=Mudelsee|first5=Manfred|title=Recent intensification of tropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean|journal=Nature Geoscience|date=16 November 2008|volume=1|issue=12|pages=849–853|doi=10.1038/ngeo357}}</ref>


==Effect on Australian droughts==
==Effect on Australian droughts==
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*{{cite journal |last=Li |first=Tim |year=2003 |title=A Theory for the Indian Ocean Dipole–Zonal Mode |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |volume=60 |issue=17 |pages=2119–35 |doi=10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2119:ATFTIO>2.0.CO;2 |display-authors=1 |last2=Wang |first2=Bin |last3=Chang |first3=C-P. |last4=Zhang |first4=Yongsheng |bibcode = 2003JAtS...60.2119L }}
*{{cite journal |last=Li |first=Tim |year=2003 |title=A Theory for the Indian Ocean Dipole–Zonal Mode |journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |volume=60 |issue=17 |pages=2119–35 |doi=10.1175/1520-0469(2003)060<2119:ATFTIO>2.0.CO;2 |display-authors=1 |last2=Wang |first2=Bin |last3=Chang |first3=C-P. |last4=Zhang |first4=Yongsheng |bibcode = 2003JAtS...60.2119L }}
*{{cite journal |last=Rao |first=S. A. |year=2002 |title=Interannual variability in the subsurface Indian Ocean with special emphasis on the Indian Ocean Dipole |journal=Deep-Sea Research Part II |volume=49 |issue=7–8 |pages=1549–72 |doi=10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00158-8 |display-authors=1 |last2=Behera |first2=S |last3=Masumoto |first3=Y |last4=Yamagata |first4=T |bibcode = 2002DSR....49.1549R }}
*{{cite journal |last=Rao |first=S. A. |year=2002 |title=Interannual variability in the subsurface Indian Ocean with special emphasis on the Indian Ocean Dipole |journal=Deep-Sea Research Part II |volume=49 |issue=7–8 |pages=1549–72 |doi=10.1016/S0967-0645(01)00158-8 |display-authors=1 |last2=Behera |first2=S |last3=Masumoto |first3=Y |last4=Yamagata |first4=T |bibcode = 2002DSR....49.1549R }}
*{{cite journal |last=Saji |first=N. H. |year=1999 |title=A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean |journal=Nature |volume=401 |issue=6751 |pages=360–3 |doi=10.1038/43854 |pmid=16862108 |display-authors=1 |last2=Goswami |first2=B. N. |last3=Vinayachandran |first3=P. N. |last4=Yamagata |first4=T. |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v401/n6751/abs/401360a0.html |ref=harv}}
*{{cite journal |last=Saji |first=N. H. |year=1999 |title=A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean |journal=Nature |volume=401 |issue=6751 |pages=360–3 |doi=10.1038/43854 |pmid=16862108 |display-authors=1 |last2=Goswami |first2=B. N. |last3=Vinayachandran |first3=P. N. |last4=Yamagata |first4=T. |ref=harv}}
*{{cite journal |last=Behera |first=S. K. |year=2008 |title=Unusual IOD event of 2007 |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=35 |pages=L14S11 |doi=10.1029/2008GL034122 |bibcode=2008GeoRL..3514S11B |display-authors=1 |last2=Luo |first2=Jing-Jia |last3=Yamagata |first3=Toshio |issue=14}}
*{{cite journal |last=Behera |first=S. K. |year=2008 |title=Unusual IOD event of 2007 |journal=Geophysical Research Letters |volume=35 |pages=L14S11 |doi=10.1029/2008GL034122 |bibcode=2008GeoRL..3514S11B |display-authors=1 |last2=Luo |first2=Jing-Jia |last3=Yamagata |first3=Toshio |issue=14}}


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Water temperatures around the Mentawai Islands dropped about 4° Celsius during the height of a positive phase of the Indian Ocean Dipole in November 1997. During these events unusually strong winds from the east push warm surface water towards Africa, allowing cold water to upwell along the Sumatran coast. In this image blue areas are colder than normal, while red areas are warmer than normal.

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), also known as the Indian Niño, is an irregular oscillation of sea-surface temperatures in which the western Indian Ocean becomes alternately warmer and then colder than the eastern part of the ocean.

Monsoon in India is generally affected by the temperature between bay of Bangal in the east and The Arabian sea in the west

Phenomenon

The IOD involves an aperiodic oscillation of sea-surface temperatures, between "positive", "neutral" and "negative" phases. A positive phase sees greater-than-average sea-surface temperatures and greater precipitation in the western Indian Ocean region, with a corresponding cooling of waters in the eastern Indian Ocean—which tends to cause droughts in adjacent land areas of Indonesia and Australia. The negative phase of the IOD brings about the opposite conditions, with warmer water and greater precipitation in the eastern Indian Ocean, and cooler and drier conditions in the west.

The IOD also affects the strength of monsoons over the Indian subcontinent. A significant positive IOD occurred in 1997–98, with another in 2006. The IOD is one aspect of the general cycle of global climate, interacting with similar phenomena like the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean.

The IOD phenomenon was first identified by climate researchers in 1999.[1][2]

An average of four each positive-negative IOD events occur during each 30-year period with each event lasting around six months. However, there have been 12 positive IODs since 1980 and no negative events from 1992 until a strong negative event in late 2010. The occurrence of consecutive positive IOD events is extremely rare with only two such events recorded, 1913–1914 and the three consecutive events from 2006 to 2008 which preceded the Black Saturday bushfires. Modelling suggests that consecutive positive events could be expected to occur twice over a 1,000-year period. The positive IOD in 2007 evolved together with La Niña, which is a very rare phenomenon that has happened only once in the available historical records (in 1967).[3][4][5][6] A strong negative IOD developed in October 2010,[7] which, coupled with a strong and concurrent La Niña, caused the 2010–2011 Queensland floods and the 2011 Victorian floods.

In 2008, Nerilie Abram used coral records from the eastern and western Indian Ocean to construct a coral Dipole Mode Index extending back to 1846 AD.[8] This extended perspective on IOD behaviour suggested that positive IOD events increased in strength and frequency during the 20th century.[9]

Effect on Australian droughts

A 2009 study by Ummenhofer et al. at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Climate Change Research Centre has demonstrated a significant correlation between the IOD and drought in the southern half of Australia, in particular the south-east. Every major southern drought since 1889 has coincided with positive-neutral IOD fluctuations including the 1895–1902, 1937–1945 and the 1995–2009 droughts.[10]

The research shows that when the IOD is in its negative phase, with cool Indian Ocean water west of Australia and warm Timor Sea water to the north, winds are generated that pick up moisture from the ocean and then sweep down towards southern Australia to deliver higher rainfall. In the IOD-positive phase, the pattern of ocean temperatures is reversed, weakening the winds and reducing the amount of moisture picked up and transported across Australia. The consequence is that rainfall in the south-east is well below average during periods of a positive IOD.

The study also shows that the IOD has a much more significant effect on the rainfall patterns in south-east Australia than the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Pacific Ocean as already shown in several recent studies.[11][12][13]

See also

References

  1. ^ Saji et al. 1999
  2. ^ Webster, P.J.; Moore, A.M:Loschnigg, J.P., Leben, R.P. "Coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics in the Indian Ocean during 1997–98". Letters to Nature. 401: 356–360. doi:10.1038/43848.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Cai W, Pan A, Roemmich D, Cowan T, Guo X (2009). "Argo profiles a rare occurrence of three consecutive positive Indian Ocean Dipole events, 2006–2008". Geophysical Research Letters. 36: L037038. Bibcode:2009GeoRL..3608701C. doi:10.1029/2008GL037038.
  4. ^ Cooper, Dani (March 25, 2009). "Bushfire origins lie in Indian Ocean". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  5. ^ Perry, Michael (February 5, 2009). "Indian Ocean linked to Australian droughts". Reuters. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  6. ^ Rosebro, Jack (February 12, 2009). "Australi Reels From Split Weather System". Green Car Congress. Retrieved December 22, 2009.
  7. ^ "Seasonal Prediction: ENSO forecast, Indian Ocean forecast, Regional forecast". Low-latitude Climate Prediction Research. JAMSTEC.
  8. ^ "Coral Dipole Mode Index, World Data Center for Paleoclimatology".
  9. ^ Abram, Nerilie J.; Gagan, Michael K.; Cole, Julia E.; Hantoro, Wahyoe S.; Mudelsee, Manfred (16 November 2008). "Recent intensification of tropical climate variability in the Indian Ocean". Nature Geoscience. 1 (12): 849–853. doi:10.1038/ngeo357.
  10. ^ Ummenhofer, Caroline C. (February 2009). "What causes southeast Australia's worst droughts?". Geophysical Research Letters. 36: L04706. Bibcode:2009GeoRL..36.4706U. doi:10.1029/2008GL036801.
  11. ^ Behera, Swadhin K.; Yamagata, Toshio (2003). "Influence of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Southern Oscillation". Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. 81 (1): 169–177. doi:10.2151/jmsj.81.169.
  12. ^ Annamalai, H.; Xie, S.-P.; McCreary, J.-P.; Murtugudde, R. (2005). "Impact of Indian Ocean sea surface temperature on developing El Niño". Journal of Climatology. 18: 302–319. Bibcode:2005JCli...18..302A. doi:10.1175/JCLI-3268.1.
  13. ^ Izumo, T.; Vialard, J.; Lengaigne, M.; de Boyer Montegut, C.; Behera, S.K.; Luo, J.-J.; Cravatte, S.; Masson, S.; Yamagata, T. (2010). "Influence of the state of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the following year's El Niño". Nature Geoscience. 3: 168–172. Bibcode:2010NatGe...3..168I. doi:10.1038/NGEO760.

Further reading

External links

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