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Interannual variability of sea level in the southern Indian Ocean: local vs. remote forcing mechanisms
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University
of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami,
Florida, USA
Denis L. Volkov
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University
of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami,
Florida, USA
Kandaga Pujiana
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, University
of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami,
Florida, USA
Hong Zhang
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, California, USA
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Short summary
The southern Indian Ocean is one of the major basins for regional heat accumulation and sea level rise. The year-to-year changes of regional sea level are influenced by water exchange with the Pacific Ocean via the Indonesian Throughflow. Using a general circulation model, we show that the spatiotemporal pattern of these changes is primarily set by local wind forcing modulated by El Niño–Southern Oscillation, while oceanic signals originating in the Pacific can amplify locally forced signals.
The southern Indian Ocean is one of the major basins for regional heat accumulation and sea...
