I.1.
The Monsoons and their influence on the Northern
Tropical Indian Ocean
I.1.1.
The Somali Current
(i)
Current Measurements
(ii) The Great Whirl and the two-eddies
system
(iii)
Modeling the Somali Current
I.1.2.
The Arabian Sea
(i) The
Cooling of the Arabian Sea and Deep
Recirculation
I.1.3.
The Bay of Bengal
(i) the
Western Boundary Current or East Indian
Current
(ii) the
Andaman Sea
I.2.
The Indonesian Throughflow
I.2.1 The
Geography of the Indonesian Throughflow
I.2.2 The
Driving Force of the Indonesian Throughflow
I.2.3
Volume Transport Measurements
I.2.4 The
Zonal Jet of the Throughflow
I.2.5
Kelvin and Rossby Waves generated by the
throughflow
I.2.6 The
Leeuwin Current
I.3. The
Equatorial Indian Ocean
I.3.1.
Equatorial Currents
(i) the
monsoonal surface currents
(ii) the Inter-monsoon Jets
(iii) the Undercurrent
I.3.2.
Equatorial Waves in the Indian Ocean
(i)
Rossby and Kelvin Waves
(ii) the Yanai wave
(iii) Future work
I.4. The
Southern Tropical Indian Ocean
I.4.1.
The South Equatorial Current and the
associated Rossby waves
I.4.2.
The East African Coastal Current
I.4.3 The
Mozambique Channel and the Agulhas Current