Geography · Climatology

The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) exerts a strong influence on the Indian Summer Monsoon primarily through modulating:

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1Rossby wave propagation from the Southern Ocean to the Arabian Sea
2Cross-equatorial wind stress and thermocline tilt in the western Indian Ocean✓
3Phase transitions of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) over the Maritime Continent
4Latent heat flux from the Bay of Bengal to the Tibetan Plateau

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Cross-equatorial wind stress and thermocline tilt in the western Indian Ocean

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