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Visit the CLIVAR Calendar for future, present and past meetings and workshops.
Below is a list of those specifically relevant to the Indian Ocean...


FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Indian Ocean GOOS Conference on Observing, Modeling, Data Management and Capacity Building
Grand Bay, Mauritius
Mauritius Oceanographic Institute
November 1-9, 2002

WOCE and Beyond
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
San Antonio, Texas
18-22 November 2002

IUGG 2003
Saporo - JAPAN
June 30 - July 11 2003

Festival International de la Meteo


RECENTLY PAST EVENTS

EGS XXVII General Assembly
Nice, France, 21-26 April 2002

2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting
Special Indian Ocean and Indonesian throughflow session
11-15 February - Honolulu (Hawaii); ASLO/AGU

- Year 2001 -

2001 - An Ocean Odyssey: JOIN THE LARGEST OCEANOGRAPHIC MEETING EVER !

THE REYKJAVIK CONFERENCE ON RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES IN THE MARINE ECOSYSTEM
OCTOBER 1 - 4, 2001 REYKJAVIK, ICELAND

The Geologic and Climatic Evolution of the Arabian Sea Region
April 5-6, 2001; Geological Society of London; Burlington House; Piccadilly, London UK

International Colloquium: Forecasting the Monsoon from Days to Decades
New Dehli, India ; 21-22-March 2001 Greg Holland

Second International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-II): Forecasting the Monsoon from Days to Decades
New Dehli, India ; 23-28-March 2001 Greg Holland

1st International Congress on Marine Science and Technology
"OCEANS III MILLENNIUM"
Oceanology and Human Development between the coastline and the continental margin
Pontevedra (Spain), 24th - 27th of April 2001

- Year 2000 -

Workshop on Interannual Climate Variability and Pelagic Fisheries
Nouméa, Nouvelle Calédonie 6th - 24th November 2000

CLIVAR Indian Ocean Workshop
Perth, Australia - 13-Nov-2000-15-Nov-2000 - ICPO
Discussion Papers for the Workshop on Sustained Observations of Climate in the Indian Ocean (SOCIO)

Ocean Winds: A Workshop on Present and Emerging Remote Sensing Methods
19 - 22 June 2000 Brest, France

Symposium on Indo-Pacific Climate, March 6-7, 2000


ONGOING ACTIVITY

The Project

Seychelles Marine Conservation Expedition

The Shoals of Capricorn Expedition
and The Mascarene Ridge region in the OCCAM Model

IOC IHO IBCWIO-International Bathymetric Chart of the Western Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean 2001 web site


RECENT PUBLICATIONS
( for past publications, please go to the
Bibliography page )

Table of Contents for Deep Sea Research Part II:
Topical Studies in Oceanography Volume 49, Issue 7-8, 2002

Physical Oceanography of the Indian Ocean during WOCE Edited by F.A. Schott

Monsoon Breaks and Subseasonal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Bay of Bengal.
Gabriel A. Vecchi, D. E. Harrison
Journal of Climate Volume 15 No. 12 - pages 1485-1493.

Teleconnection of OLR and SST anomalies over Atlantic Ocean with Indian summer monsoon.
Srivastava, A. K.; Rajeevan, M.; Kulkarni, R.
Geophysical Research Letters - Vol. 29, No. 8.

Monsoonal characteristics revealed by intraseasonal variability of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) in the South China Sea (SCS).
Gao, Rongzhen; Zhou, Faxiu
Geophysical Research Letters - Vol. 29, No. 8.

Impacts of the Indian Ocean on the ENSO cycle
Yu, Jin-Yi; Mechoso, Carlos R.; McWilliams, James C.; Arakawa, Akio
Geophysical Research Letters - Vol. 29, No. 8.

SPECIAL INDOEX JGR ISSUE

T.G. Prasad and M. Ikeda (2002)
The Wintertime Water Mass Formation in the Northern Arabian Sea: A Model Study,
Journal of Physical Oceanography, 32, No. 3, pp. 1028-1040.

Indian Monsoon GCM Sensitivity Experiments Testing Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation Transition Conditions.
Gerald A. Meehl, Julie M. Arblaster,
pages 923-944. Journal of Climate - Volume 15 - No. 9.

Recent Change in the Connection from the Asian Monsoon to ENSO.
J. L. Kinter III, K. Miyakoda, S. Yang,
pages 1203-1215. Journal of Climate - Volume 15 - No. 10.

Effects of the Indonesian Throughflow on the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Tong Lee, Ichiro Fukumori, Dimitris Menemenlis, Zhangfan Xing, Lee-Lueng Fu
, pages 1404-1429. JPO - Volume 32 - No. 5.

SST Observations of the Agulhas and East Madagascar Retroflections by the TRMM Microwave Imager. Graham D. Quartly, Meric A. Srokosz
, pages 1585-1592. JPO - Volume 32 - No. 5.

On Dipolelike Variability of Sea Surface Temperature in the Tropical Indian Ocean.
Astrid Baquero-Bernal, Mojib Latif, Stephanie Legutke,
pages 1358-1368. Journal of Climate - Volume 15 - No. 11.

Equatorial Deep Jets and Abyssal Mixing in the Indian Ocean.
Marcus Dengler, Detlef Quadfasel
, pages 1165-1180. JPO Volume 32 No. 4.

Large-Scale Forcing of the Agulhas Variability: The Seasonal Cycle.
R. P. Matano, E. J. Beier, P. T. Strub, R. Tokmakian
, pages 1228-1241. JPO Volume 32 No. 4.

Structure and mechanisms of South Indian Ocean climate variability.
Xie, S.P., H. Annamalai, F.A. Schott, and J.P. McCreary
J. Climate: Vol. 15 (2002) pp. 867-878

Silica fluxes and opal dissolution rates in the northern Arabian Sea
A.J. van der Weijden and C.H. van der Weijden
Deep Sea Research Part I : Oceanographic Research: Vol. 49 (1) (2002) pp. 157-173

Photosynthetic physiology and physicochemical forcing in the Arabian Sea, 1995
Z. Johnson, R.R. Bidigare, R. Goericke, J. Marra, C. Trees and R.T. Barber
Deep Sea Research Part I : Oceanographic Research: Vol. 49 (3) (2002) pp. 415-436

Drought in Central and Southwest Asia: La Niña, the Warm Pool, and Indian Ocean Precipitation
Mathew Barlow, Heidi Cullen, and Bradfield Lyon
Journal of Climate: Vol. 15, No. 7, p. 697-700.

Influence of Soil Moisture on the Asian and African Monsoons. Part II: Interannual Variability.
H. Douville; Journal of Climate 2002: Vol. 15, No. 7, p. 701-720.

The Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation and Asian-Australian Monsoon Rainfall
Gerald A. Meehl and Julie M. Arblaster
Journal of Climate 2002: Vol. 15, No. 7, p. 722-744.

R. C. Wajsowicz - 2002
Air-sea interaction over the Indian Ocean due to variations in the Indonesian throughflow
Climate Dynamics 2002: Vol. 18; pp.437-453.

Weiqing Han and Peter J. Webster - 2002
Forcing Mechanisms of Sea Level Interannual Variability in the Bay of Bengal
Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 216-239.

Ming Feng and Susan Wijffels - 2002
Intraseasonal Variability in the South Equatorial Current of the East Indian Ocean
Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 265-277.

Prasad, T. G. ; Ikeda, M.- 2001
Spring evolution of Arabian Sea High in the Indian Ocean.
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C12 , p. 31,085

Hupe, Axel ; Thomas, Helmuth ; Ittekkot, Venugopalan ; Lendt, Ralf - 2001
Inventory of released inorganic carbon from organic matter remineralization in the deeper Arabian Sea.
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C12 , p. 31,189

Coughlin, Katie ; Tung, Ka-Kit-2001
QBO Signal found at the Extratropical Surface through Northern Annular Modes
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 24 , p. 4563

Bonazzola, M. ; Picon, L. ; Laurent, H. ; Hourdin, F. ; Sèze, G. ; Pawlowska, H. ; Sadourny, R. - 2001
Retrieval of large-scale wind divergences from infrared Meteosat-5 brightness temperatures over the Indian Ocean.
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D22 , p. 28,113

H. Annamalai, J. M. Slingo:
Active / break cycles: diagnosis of the intraseasonal variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon
Climate Dynamics 18 (2001) 1/2, 85-102.

Ashok, Karumuri ; Guan, Zhaoyong ; Yamagata, Toshio - 2001
Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Relationship between the Indian Monsoon Rainfall and ENSO
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 23 , p. 4499

Liu, Qinyu ; Jia, Yinglai ; Liu, Penghui ; Wang, Qi ; Chu, Peter C. - 2001
Seasonal and Intraseasonal Thermocline Variability in the Central South China Sea.
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 23 , p. 4467

Podgorny, I. A. ; Ramanathan, V. - 2001
A modeling study of the direct effect of aerosols over the tropical Indian Ocean.
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D20 , p. 24,097

Anomalous surface currents in the tropical Indian Ocean
Grodsky, Semyon A. ; Carton, James A. ; Murtugudde, Raghu; 2001
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 22 , p. 4207

Dynamical response of equatorial Indian Ocean to intraseasonal winds: zonal flow
Han, Weiqing ; Lawrence, David M. ; Webster, Peter J.; 2001
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 22 , p. 4215

Interannual Upper Ocean Variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean.
Feng, Ming ; Meyers, Gary ; Wijffels, Susan; 2001.
Geophys. Res. Lett.:Vol. 28 , No. 21 , p. 4151.

Coherent Intraseasonal Oscillations of Ocean and Atmosphere during the Asian Summer Monsoon.
Sengupta, Debasis ; Goswami, B. N. ; Senan, Retish; 2001.
Geophys. Res. Lett.: Vol. 28 , No. 21 , p. 4127.

Earth's eccentricity Cycles and Indian Summer Monsoon variability over the past 2 million years: Evidence from deep-sea Benthic Foraminifer.
Gupta, Anil K. ; Dhingra, Hitesh ; Mélice, Jean-Luc ; Anderson, David M.; 2001.
Geophys. Res. LGeophys. Res. Lett.: Vol. 28 , No. 21 , p. 4131.

Interannual Variability of the Asian Summer Monsoon: Contrasts between the Indian and the Western North Pacific-East Asian Monsoons
Bin Wang, Renguang Wu, and K.-M. Lau; 2001.
Journal of Climate: Vol. 14, No. 20, pp. 4073-4090.

Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal exchange of salt and tracers in an ocean model
Jensen, Tommy G.; 2001 Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 20 , p. 3967

A Curvilinear Ocean Model Using a Grid Regionally Compressed in the South Indian Ocean.
Ross J. Murray, and C. J. C. Reason,
Journ. Phys. Oceanog. Volume 31, Number 10. p. 2809-2823.

Evidence for Coupled Rossby Waves in the Annual Cycle of the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Warren B. White
Journ. Phys. Oceanog. Volume 31, Number 10. p. 2944-2957.

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences: Vol. 58, No. 18, pp. 2820-2831.
Multiple Quasi Equilibria of the ITCZ and the Origin of Monsoon Onset. Part II: Rotational ITCZ Attractors
Winston C. Chao, and Baode Chen

Harrison, D. E. ; Vecchi, Gabriel A., 2001:
January 1999 Indian Ocean cooling event
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 19 , p. 3717

Lutjeharms, Johann R. E. ; Boebel, Olaf ; van der Vaart, Paul C. F. ; de Ruijter, Wilhelmus P. M. ; Rossby, Thomas ; Bryden, Harry L., 2001: Evidence that the Natal Pulse involves the Agulhas Current to its full depth .
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 18 , p. 3449

Marshall, John F. ; McCulloch, Malcolm T.; 2001
Evidence of El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole from Sr/Ca derived SSTs for modern corals at Christmas Island, eastern Indian Ocean.
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 18 , p. 3453

Hautala, Susan L. ; Sprintall, Janet ; Potemra, James T. ; Chong, Jackson C. ; Pandoe, Wahyu ; Bray, Nan ; Ilahude, A. Gani: 2001
Velocity structure and transport of the Indonesian Throughflow in the major straits restricting flow into the Indian Ocean
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C9 , p. 19,527

Dynamical Seasonal Predictability of the Asian Summer Monsoon.
K. R. Sperber, C. Brankovic, M. Déqué, C. S. Frederiksen, R. Graham, A. Kitoh, C. Kobayashi, T. Palmer, K. Puri, W. Tennant, and E. Volodin, 2001:
Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 129, No. 9, pp. 2226–2248.

Howden, Stephan D. ; Murtugudde, Raghu; 2001:
Effects of river inputs into the Bay of Bengal
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C9 , p. 19,825

Henk A. Dijkstra and Wilhelmus P. M. de Ruitjer, 2001: Barotropic instabilities of the Agulhas Current system and their relation to ring formation. Journ. Marine Res. Vol. 59; N°4.

Regional dynamics of seasonal variability in the South China Sea.
LIU, Z., YANG, H., AND LIU, Q. (2001), Journal of Physical Oceanography, 31(1), 272-284.

Seasonal spreading of the Persian Gulf Water mass in the Arabian Sea
Prasad, T. G. ; Ikeda, M. ; Kumar, S. Prasanna, 2001; J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C8 , p. 17,059.

Smith, S.L., 2001: Understanding the Arabian Sea: reflections on the 1994-1996 Arabian Sea Expedition.
Deep-Sea Research II, 48(6/7), 1385-1402.

Shankar, D., Shetye, S.R., 2001: Why is the mean sea level along the Indian coast higher in the Bay of Bengal than in the Arabian Sea? Geophysical Research Letters, 28(4), 563-565.

Subrahmanyam, B., Robinson, I.S., Blundell, J.R., Challenor, P.G., 2001: Indian Ocean Rossby waves observed in TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data and in model simulations. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 22(1), 141-167.

The Indonesian Throughflow's Effect on Global Climate Determined from the COLA Coupled Climate System.
Wajsowicz, Roxana C., E. K. Schneider, 2001; Journal of Climate: Vol. 14, No. 13, pp. 3029–3042 .

Dynamics of the Makassar Strait.
WAWORUNTO, J.M., GARZOLI, S.L., AND OLSON, D.B., 2001; Journal of Marine Research, 59(2), 313-325.

Annual Rossby Wave in the Southern Indian Ocean: Why Does It "Appear" to Break Down in the Middle Ocean?.
Wang, Liping, Chester J. Koblinsky, Stephan Howden, 2001

Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 54-74.

Source of the Baroclinic wave in thr southeast Indian Ocean.
Birol, Florence, Morrow, Rosemary, 2001: J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C5 , p. 9145.

  A Coupled Air-Sea-Monsoon Oscillator for the Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation.
Li, Tim, C.-W. Tham, C.-P. Chang, 2001;Journal of Climate: Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 752-764.

On the Relationship between Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperature and Asian Summer Monsoon.
Li, Tim ; Zhang, Y. ; Chang, C.-P. ; Wang, B., 2001; Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 14 , p. 2843.

Predictability of the 1997 and 1998 South Asian Summer Monsoon Low-Level Winds.
Siegfried D. Schubert, and Man Li Wu, 2001, Journal of Climate: Vol. 14, No. 15, pp. 3173–3191.

Subtropical Anticyclones and Summer Monsoons.
M. J. Rodwell, and B. J. Hoskins, pages , 2001, Journal of Climate: Vol. 14, No. 15, pp. 3192–3211.

Direct observations of clear-sky aerosol radiative forcing from space during the Indian Ocean Experiment
Rajeev, K. ; Ramanathan, V. (2001); J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D15 , p. 17,221
.

Simulated response of the atmosphere-ocean system to deforestation in the Indonesian Archipelago.
Delire, C. ; Behling, P. ; Coe, M. ; Foley, J. A. ; Jacob, R. ; Kutzbach, J. ; Liu, Z. ; Vavrus, S. (2001);
Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 10 , p. 2081.

Oscillations of Bay of Bengal sea surface temperature during the 1998 summer monsoon.
Sengupta, Debasis and Ravichandran, M. (2001); Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 10 , p. 2033

Subtropical Indian Ocean SST dipole events and southern African rainfall
Reason, C. J. C. (2001): Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 11 , p. 2225

Influence of the Indonesian Throughflow on the Circulation of Pacific Intermediate Water.
McCreary Jr., Julian P., Peng Lu (2001); Journal of Physical Oceanography: Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 932–942.

Influences of diurnal and intraseasonal forcing on mixed-layer and biological variability in the central Arabian Sea
McCreary, Julian P., Jr. ; Kohler, K. E. ; Hood, R. R. ; Smith, S. ; Kindle, J. ; Fischer, A. S. ; Weller, R. A. (2001):
J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C4 , p. 7139

Influence of precipitation minus evaporation and Bay of Bengal rivers on dynamics, thermodynamics, and mixed layer physics in the upper Indian Ocean
Han, Weiqing ; McCreary, Julian P., Jr. ; Kohler, Kevin E. (2001): J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C4 , p. 6895

Possible Roles of Atlantic Circulations on the Weakening Indian Monsoon Rainfall–ENSO Relationship
C. -P. Chang, Patrick A. Harr, and Jianhua Ju; Journal of Climate (to appear)

Nitrous oxide cycling in the Arabian Sea
Bange, Hermann W. ; Rapsomanikis, Spyridon ; Andreae, Meinrat O. (2001): J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C1 , p. 1053

Modeling salinity distributions in the Indian Ocean
Han, Weiqing ; McCreary, Julian P., Jr.( 2001): J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. C1 , p. 859

Understanding the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) aerosol distributions with an aerosol assimilation
Rasch, Philip J. ; Collins, William D. ; Eaton, Brian E. (2001): J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D7 , p. 7337

Role of equatorially asymmetric sea surface temperature anomalies in the Indian Ocean in the Asian summer monsoon and El Niño-Southern Oscillation coupling
Kawamura, Ryuichi ; Matsuura, Tomonori ; Iizuka, Satoshi (2001 ): J. Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D5 , p. 4681

Intraseasonal Eddies in the Sulawesi Sea Simulated in an Ocean General Circulation Model
Masumoto, Y. ; Kagimoto, T. ; Yoshida, M. ; Fukuda, M. ; Hirose, N. ; Yamagata, T. (2001): Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 8 , p. 1631

Origin of intraseasonal variability of circulation in the tropical central Indian Ocean
Sengupta, Debasis; Senan, Retish; Goswami, B. N. (2001): Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 7 , p. 1267

Currents in the Celebes and Maluku Seas, February 2001
Kashino, Yuji; Firing, Eric; Hacker, Peter; Sulaiman, A.; Lukiyanto (2001): Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 7 , p. 1263

Emission of carbon dioxide from a tropical estuarine system, Goa, India
Sarma, V. V. S. S.; Kumar, M. Dileep; Manerikar, M. (2001): Geophys. Res. Lett. Vol. 28 , No. 7 , p. 1239

Role of equatorially asymmetric sea surface temperature anomalies in the Indian Ocean in the Asian summer monsoon and El Niño-Southern Oscillation coupling
Kawamura, Ryuichi ; Matsuura, Tomonori ; Iizuka, Satoshi (2001); Geophys. Res. Vol. 106 , No. D5 , p. 4681

Intra-seasonal oscillations and inter-annual variability of the Indian summer monsoon.
Goswami B N and Ajaya Mohan R S , 2001: J. Climate, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1180–1198.

Propagation and Reflection of Long Equatorial Waves in the Indian Ocean from TOPEX/POSEIDON Data during the 1993-1998 Period
Le Blanc, J.-L., and Boulanger, J.-P. - Clim. Dyn., (2001) 17: 547-557.


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