The regime shift in the 1960s and associated atmospheric change over the southern Indian Ocean

WANG Tianyu; DU Yan; LIAO Xiaomei

doi:10.1007/s13131-017-0987-1

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WANG Tianyu, DU Yan, LIAO Xiaomei. The regime shift in the 1960s and associated atmospheric change over the southern Indian Ocean[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(1): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0987-1

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WANG Tianyu, DU Yan, LIAO Xiaomei. The regime shift in the 1960s and associated atmospheric change over the southern Indian Ocean[J]. Acta Oceanologica Sinica, 2017, 36(1): 1-8. doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0987-1

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The regime shift in the 1960s and associated atmospheric change over the southern Indian Ocean

doi: 10.1007/s13131-017-0987-1

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State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510301, China

Received Date: 2015-12-17
Rev Recd Date: 2016-03-21

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The change of sea surface temperature (SST) in the southern Indian Ocean (SIO) during the recent six decades has been analyzed based on oceanic reanalysis and model, as well as atmospheric data. The results show that a thermal regime shift in SIO during the 1960s, which is not caught enough attentions, has been of equal magnitude to the linear warming since 1970. Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analyses reveal that a thermal shift is combined with atmospheric changes such as the weakening of westerly during the period of 1960-1967. Inner dynamic connections can be defined that when the westerly winds turn weak, the anticyclonic wind circulation between westerly winds and the trade winds decreases, which further reduces the SST to a negative peak in this period. It is noted that the shifts in the 1960s are also evident for Southern Hemisphere. For example, subtropical high and the entire westerly winds belt at high latitudes both change dramatically in the 1960s. This large-scaled process maybe link to the change of southern annular mode (SAM).
- sea surface temperature,
- regime shift,
- southern Indian Ocean,
- interdecadal variabilities,
- linear trend

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