Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Basin-wide sea level coherency in the tropical Indian Ocean driven by Madden–Julian Oscillation

  • B. Rohith,
  • Arya Paul,
  • Fabien Durand,
  • Laurent Testut,
  • S. Prerna,
  • M. Afroosa,
  • S. S. V. S. Ramakrishna,
  • S. S. C. Shenoi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09243-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The intraseasonal barotropic response of the ocean has been assumed to be negligible in tropical regions. We show that boreal winter MJOs, aided by ocean stratification, trigger a significant basin-wide barotropic sea level response in the tropical Indian Ocean at intraseasonal time scales.