scholarly journals Sensitivity of equatorial Pacific and Indian Ocean watermasses to the position of the Indonesian Throughflow

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (18) ◽  
pp. 2941-2944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith B. Rodgers ◽  
Mojib Latif ◽  
Stephanie Legutke
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow

scholarly journals Forcing of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Interannual Variations of the Tropical Pacific Ocean: Roles of the Indonesian Throughflow

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 3593-3608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongliang Yuan ◽  
Jing Wang ◽  
Tengfei Xu ◽  
Peng Xu ◽  
Zhou Hui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean Dipole ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
Tropical Pacific Ocean ◽  
Equatorial Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Tropical Pacific

Abstract Controlled numerical experiments using ocean-only and ocean–atmosphere coupled general circulation models show that interannual sea level depression in the eastern Indian Ocean during the Indian Ocean dipole (IOD) events forces enhanced Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) to transport warm water from the upper-equatorial Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean. The enhanced transport produces elevation of the thermocline and cold subsurface temperature anomalies in the western equatorial Pacific Ocean, which propagate to the eastern equatorial Pacific to induce significant coupled evolution of the tropical Pacific oceanic and atmospheric circulation. Analyses suggest that the IOD-forced ITF transport anomalies are about the same amplitudes as those induced by the Pacific ENSO. Results of the coupled model experiments suggest that the anomalies induced by the IOD persist in the equatorial Pacific until the year following the IOD event, suggesting the importance of the oceanic channel in modulating the interannual climate variations of the tropical Pacific Ocean at the time lag beyond one year.

scholarly journals Interannual Climate Variability over the Tropical Pacific Ocean Induced by the Indian Ocean Dipole through the Indonesian Throughflow

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 2845-2861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongliang Yuan ◽  
Hui Zhou ◽  
Xia Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Tropical Indian Ocean ◽  
Sea Surface Height ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
Cold Tongue ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Southeastern Tropical Indian Ocean

Abstract The authors’ previous dynamical study has suggested a link between the Indian and Pacific Ocean interannual climate variations through the transport variations of the Indonesian Throughflow. In this study, the consistency of this oceanic channel link with observations is investigated using correlation analyses of observed ocean temperature, sea surface height, and surface wind data. The analyses show significant lag correlations between the sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean in fall and those in the eastern Pacific cold tongue in the following summer through fall seasons, suggesting potential predictability of ENSO events beyond the period of 1 yr. The dynamics of this teleconnection seem not through the atmospheric bridge, because the wind anomalies in the far western equatorial Pacific in fall have insignificant correlations with the cold tongue anomalies at time lags beyond one season. Correlation analyses between the sea surface height anomalies (SSHA) in the southeastern tropical Indian Ocean and those over the Indo-Pacific basin suggest eastward propagation of the upwelling anomalies from the Indian Ocean into the equatorial Pacific Ocean through the Indonesian Seas. Correlations in the subsurface temperature in the equatorial vertical section of the Pacific Ocean confirm the propagation. In spite of the limitation of the short time series of observations available, the study seems to suggest that the ocean channel connection between the two basins is important for the evolution and predictability of ENSO.

scholarly journals Oceanic Radiocarbon and Tritium On A Transect Between Australia and Bali (Eastern Indian Ocean)

Radiocarbon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Leboucher ◽  
Philippe Jean-Baptiste ◽  
Elise Fourré ◽  
Maurice Arnold ◽  
Michèle Fieux
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
North Equatorial Current ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Equatorial Current

Results are presented of radiocarbon and tritium measurements along a transect between the Australian continental shelf and the Indonesian coast of Bali. The stations lie in the easternmost part of the Indian Ocean, close to the sills over which the Indonesian throughflow (ITF) makes its way to the Indian Ocean. The present data, obtained as part of the Java-Australia Dynamics Experiment (JADE) in August 1989, complement the WOCE 14C and tritium data set on both sides of the Indonesian archipelago and give us the opportunity to discuss the origin of the water masses and timescale of the throughflow. Both tracers point to a north equatorial Pacific origin of the waters. The comparison of the tritium inventories in the Pacific North Equatorial Current and along the JADE transect suggests a minimum transit time of the waters across the Indonesian seaways of the order of 5 to 6 yr, corresponding to a throughflow <18 × 106 m3/s.

The Role of the Indonesian Throughflow in the Indo–Pacific Climate Variability in the GFDL Coupled Climate Model

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 2434-2451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Song ◽  
Gabriel A. Vecchi ◽  
Anthony J. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Tropical Indian Ocean ◽  
Tropical Pacific ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
Enso Events ◽  
State Changes ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Mean State

Abstract The impacts of the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) on the tropical Indo–Pacific climate, particularly on the character of interannual variability, are explored using a coupled general circulation model (CGCM). A pair of CGCM experiments—a control experiment with an open ITF and a perturbation experiment in which the ITF is artificially closed—is integrated for 200 model years, with the 1990 values of trace gases. The closure of the ITF results in changes to the mean oceanic and atmospheric conditions throughout the tropical Indo–Pacific domain as follows: surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific (Indian) Ocean warm (cool), the near-equatorial Pacific (Indian) thermocline flattens (shoals), Indo–Pacific warm-pool precipitation shifts eastward, and there are relaxed trade winds over the tropical Pacific and anomalous surface easterlies over the equatorial Indian Ocean. The character of the oceanic changes is similar to that described by ocean-only model experiments, though the amplitude of many features in the tropical Indo–Pacific is amplified in the CGCM experiments. In addition to the mean-state changes, the character of tropical Indo–Pacific interannual variability is substantially modified. Interannual variability in the equatorial Pacific and the eastern tropical Indian Ocean is substantially intensified by the closure of the ITF. In addition to becoming more energetic, El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) exhibits a shorter time scale of variability and becomes more skewed toward its warm phase (stronger and more frequent warm events). The structure of warm ENSO events changes; the anomalies of sea surface temperature (SST), precipitation, and surface westerly winds are shifted to the east and the meridional extent of surface westerly anomalies is larger. In the eastern tropical Indian Ocean, the interannual SST variability off the coast of Java–Sumatra is noticeably amplified by the occurrence of much stronger cooling events. Closing the ITF shoals the eastern tropical Indian Ocean thermocline, which results in stronger cooling events through enhanced atmosphere–thermocline coupled feedbacks. Changes to the interannual variability caused by the ITF closure rectify into mean-state changes in tropical Indo–Pacific conditions. The modified Indo–Pacific interannual variability projects onto the mean-state differences between the ITF open and closed scenarios, rectifying into mean-state differences. These results suggest that CGCMs need to reasonably simulate the ITF in order to successfully represent not just the mean climate, but its variations as well.

scholarly journals Sources of Tropical Subseasonal Skill in the CFSv2

2020 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 1553-1565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl J. Schreck ◽  
Matthew A. Janiga ◽  
Stephen Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves ◽  
Subseasonal Variability ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Fourier Filtering ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Rainfall Anomalies ◽  
Combined Data

Abstract This study applies Fourier filtering to a combination of rainfall estimates from TRMM and forecasts from the CFSv2. The combined data are filtered for low-frequency (LF, ≥120 days) variability, the MJO, and convectively coupled equatorial waves. The filtering provides insight into the sources of skill for the CFSv2. The LF filter, which encapsulates persistent anomalies generally corresponding with SSTs, has the largest contribution to forecast skill beyond week 2. Variability within the equatorial Pacific is dominated by its response to ENSO, such that both the unfiltered and the LF-filtered forecasts are skillful over the Pacific through the entire 45-day CFSv2 forecast. In fact, the LF forecasts in that region are more skillful than the unfiltered forecasts or any combination of the filters. Verifying filtered against unfiltered observations shows that subseasonal variability has very little opportunity to contribute to skill over the equatorial Pacific. Any subseasonal variability produced by the model is actually detracting from the skill there. The MJO primarily contributes to CFSv2 skill over the Indian Ocean, particularly during March–May and MJO phases 2–5. However, the model misses opportunities for the MJO to contribute to skill in other regions. Convectively coupled equatorial Rossby waves contribute to skill over the Indian Ocean during December–February and the Atlantic Ocean during September–November. Convectively coupled Kelvin waves show limited potential skill for predicting weekly averaged rainfall anomalies since they explain a relatively small percent of the observed variability.

scholarly journals Previously unidentified Indonesian Throughflow pathways and freshening in the Indian Ocean during recent decades

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvienty Makarim ◽  
Janet Sprintall ◽  
Zhiyu Liu ◽  
Weidong Yu ◽  
Agus Santoso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
The Indian Ocean

scholarly journals Cocos (Keeling) Corals Reveal 200 Years of Multidecadal Modulation of Southeast Indian Ocean Hydrology by Indonesian Throughflow

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Hennekam ◽  
Jens Zinke ◽  
Erik van Sebille ◽  
Malou ten Have ◽  
Geert-Jan A. Brummer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow

scholarly journals Direct estimates of the Indonesian Throughflow entering the Indian Ocean: 2004–2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (C7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Sprintall ◽  
Susan E. Wijffels ◽  
Robert Molcard ◽  
Indra Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Indonesian Throughflow ◽  
The Indian Ocean

scholarly journals Late Miocene calcareous nannofossil genus <i>Catinaster:</i> taxonomy, evolution and magnetobiochronology

1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Peleo-Alampay ◽  
David Bukry ◽  
Li Liu ◽  
Jeremy R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Late Miocene ◽  
Equatorial Pacific ◽  
Calcareous Nannofossil ◽  
New Subspecies ◽  
Eastern Equatorial Pacific ◽  
First Occurrence ◽  
The Indian Ocean

Abstract. A systematic study on the evolution and stratigraphic distribution of the species of Catinaster from several DSDP/ODP sites with magnetostratigraphic records is presented. The evolution of Catinaster from Discoaster is established by documentation of a transitional nannofossil species, Discoaster transitus. Two new subspecies, Catinaster coalitus extensus and Catinaster calyculus rectus are defined which appear to be intermediates in the evolution of Catinaster coalitus coalitus to Catinaster calyculus calyculus. The first occurrence of C. coalitus is shown to be in the lower part of C5n.2n at 10.7–10.9 Ma in the low to mid–latitude Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The last occurrence of C. coalitus coalitus varies from the upper part of C5n.2n to the lower portion of C4A. Magnetobiostratigraphic evidence suggests that the FO of C. calyculus rectus is diachronous. Catinaster mexicanus occurs in the late Miocene and has been found only in the eastern equatorial Pacific, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

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