Seasonal and interannual variabilities of the barrier  layer thickness in the tropical Indian Ocean

Yuan, Xu; Yu, Xiaolong; Su, Zhongbo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1285-2020

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1285-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/os-16-1285-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 5

Research article

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29 Oct 2020

Research article |

| 29 Oct 2020

Seasonal and interannual variabilities of the barrier layer thickness in the tropical Indian Ocean

Xu Yuan, Xiaolong Yu, and Zhongbo Su

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RC1: 'Comments to "The seasonal and interannual variabilities of the barrier layer thickness in the tropical Indian Ocean"', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Jun 2019
- AC1: 'Response letter to Referee 1', Xu Yuan, 20 Feb 2020
EC1: 'Editor comment on os-2019-12 : The seasonal and interannual variabilities of the barrier layer thickness in the tropical Indian Ocean', A.J. George Nurser, 20 Dec 2019
- AC2: 'Response letter to Editor', Xu Yuan, 20 Feb 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Xu Yuan on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (05 Mar 2020) by A.J. George Nurser

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (20 Mar 2020)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (04 Apr 2020) by A.J. George Nurser

AR by Xu Yuan on behalf of the Authors (30 May 2020) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (08 Jul 2020) by A.J. George Nurser

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Jul 2020)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (26 Jul 2020) by A.J. George Nurser

AR by Xu Yuan on behalf of the Authors (03 Aug 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (15 Sep 2020) by A.J. George Nurser

AR by Xu Yuan on behalf of the Authors (16 Sep 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

This work investigates the variabilities of the barrier layer thickness (BLT) in the tropical Indian Ocean with the Simple Ocean Data Assimilation version 3 ocean reanalysis data. Our results show that the seasonal variation of the BLT is in relation to the changes of thermocline and sea surface salinity. In terms of the interannual timescale, BLT presents a clear seasonal phase locking dominated by different drivers during the Indian Dipole and El Niño–Southern Oscillation events.