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Indian Ocean Dipole and southern high latitude precipitation: possible links

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Southern high latitude precipitation during austral spring in relation to the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and ENSO is investigated in the present study. Both the IOD and ENSO generate Rossby waves trains that create positive and negative pressure anomalies. These anomalous pressure centres generate meridional moisture fluxes that impact the precipitation. Influence of the IOD is detected mainly in the Ross sea region, where the southward moisture transport induced by the low pressure cell enhances precipitation. During strong IOD years, east Antarctica near 100°E, is also characterised by enhanced precipitation induced by the southward moisture transport by a high pressure cell located south of Australia. In the Dronning Maud Land, precipitation is linked to the moisture advection through the Atlantic during ENSO years and not during the IOD years.

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The authors thank Director NCAOR for supporting this study. ERA-Interim was downloaded from http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/interim_mnth/. NCEP reanalysis data was provided by the NOAA/OAR/ESRL PSD, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their web site http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/. CMAP data set was downloaded from CPC ftp server ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/cmap/. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. This is NCAOR contribution 24/2013.

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Nuncio, M., Satheesan, K. Indian Ocean Dipole and southern high latitude precipitation: possible links. Clim Dyn 43, 1965–1972 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-013-2020-5

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