Publications

Presently, we are listing the publications from our group only. After obtaining permission from other groups who are working on the Indian Ocean Dipole, we wish to post all the publications related to the IOD on this site in near future.

2010:

Nagura, M., and M. J. McPhaden, 2010: Dynamics of zonal current variations associated with the Indian Ocean dipole, J. Geophys. Res., 115, C11026, doi:10.1029/2010JC006423, doi:10.1029/2010JC006423.

Luo, J.-J., S. K. Behera, Y. Masumoto and T. Yamagata, 2010: Impact of Global Ocean Surface Warming on Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Prediction, J. Climate, accepted, pdf. Luo, J.-J., R. Zhang, S. K. Behera, Y. Masumoto, F.-F. Jin, R. Lukas and T. Yamagata, 2010: Interaction between El Nino and Extreme Indian Ocean Dipole, J. Climate, 23(3), 726-742, doi:10.1175/2009JCLI3104.1.

2009:

R. S. Ajayamohan, S. A. Rao, Jing-Jia Luo and T. Yamagata, 2009: Influence of Indian Ocean Dipole on boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations in a Coupled General Circulation Model, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD011096 (in press).

2008:

R. S. Ajayamohan, S. A. Rao and T. Yamagata, 2008: Influence of Indian Ocean Dipole on poleward propagation of boreal summer intraseasonal oscillations, J. Climate, 21, 5437-5454. DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI1758.1

R. S. Ajayamohan and S. A. Rao, 2008: Indian Ocean Dipole modulates the number of extreme rainfall events over India in a warming environment, J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 86, 225-229. doi:10.2151/jmsj.86.245

Luo, J.-J., and G. D. Bell, 2008: Indian Ocean Dipole, State of the climate in 2007, Levinson, D.H., and J.H. Lawrimore eds.,  Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc.,  89, S81-S83. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-89-7-StateoftheClimate

Kug, J.-S., K. P. Sooraj, F.-F. Jin, and J.-J. Luo, 2008: Impact of Indian Ocean Dipole on fast atmospheric variability over the Indian Ocean, Atmospheric Research, accepted.

Hong, C.-C., T. Li, and J.-J. Luo, 2008: Asymmetry of the Indian Ocean Dipole. Part II: Model diagnosis, J. Climate, 21, 4849-4858. DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2223.1

Tozuka, T., J.-J. Luo, S. Masson, and T. Yamagata, 2008: Tropical Indian Ocean variability revealed by self-organizing maps, Climate Dynamics, 31, 333-343. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-007-0356-4

Izumo, T., C. de Boyer Montegut, J.-J. Luo, S.K. Behera, S. Masson, and T. Yamagata, 2008: The role of the western Arabian Sea upwelling in Indian monsoon rainfall variability. J. Climate, DOI: 10.1175/2008JCLI2158.1.

Rao, S.A., J-J Luo, S. K. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2008: Activation, Maturation and Termination of Indian Ocean Dipole Events in 2003, 2006 and 2007, Climate Dynamics, (in press).

Behera, S.K., J-J Luo, and T. Yamagata, 2008: The Unusual IOD Event of 2007, Geophy. Res. Letter, 35, L14S11, doi:10.1029/2008GL034122.

Chan, S., S. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2007: The Indian Ocean Dipole teleconnection to South America, Geophys. Res. Lett. , 35, L14S12, doi:10.1029/2008GL034204.

Luo, J.-J., S. Behera, Y. Masumoto, H. Sakuma and T. Yamagata, 2008: Successful prediction of the consecutive IOD in 2006 and 2007, Geophy. Res. Letter, 35, L14S02, doi:10.1029/2007GL032793.

Luo, J.-J., S. Masson, S. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2008: Extended ENSO Predictions Using a Fully Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Model, J. Climate, 21 (1), 84-93, DOI: 10.1175/2007JCLI1412.1.

Weng, H., S. K. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2008: Anomalous winter climate conditions in the Pacific rim during recent El Nino Modoki and El Nino events. Climate Dynamics, doi:10.1007/s00382-008-0394-6.

Navarra, A., S. Gualdi, S. Masina, S. K. Behera, J.J. Luo, S. Masson, E. Guilyardi, P. Delecluse and T. Yamagata, 2008: Atmospheric Horizontal Resolution Affects Tropical Climate Variability in Coupled Models, J. Climate, 21, 730–750, doi:10.1175/2007JCLI1406.1.

2007:

Ashok, K. and Saji, N. H., 2007: On impacts of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole events on the sub-regional Indian summer monsoon rainfall, Natural Hazards, Volume 42, Number 2, pp. 273-285, doi:10.1007/s11069-006-9091-0.

Ashok, K, S.K. Behera, S.A. Rao, H. Weng, and T.Yamagata 2007: El Niņo Modoki and its possible teleconnection, JGR-Ocean, 112, C11007, doi:10.1029/2006JC003798.

Ashok, K., H. Nakamura and T. Yamagata, 2007: Impacts of ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole events on the southern hemisphere storm track activity during austral winter, J. Climate, Volume 20, Issue 13, pp.3147-3163, DOI:10.1175/JCLI4155.1.

Luo, J.-J., S. Masson, S. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2007: Experimental Forecasts of the Indian Ocean Dipole Using a Coupled OAGCM, J. Climate.  20, 2178–2190, doi:10.1175/JCLI4132.1.

Weng, , H., Ashok, K., S. K. Behera, S. A. Rao, T. Yamagata, 2007: Impacts of Recent El Niņo Modoki on Droughts/Floods in the Pacific Rim during Boreal Summer, Climate Dyn.  29, 113-129, doi:10.1007/s00382-007-0234-0.

Marchant, R., C. Mumbi, S. Behera, and T. Yamagata, 2007: The Indian Ocean dipole – the unsung driver of climatic variability in East Africa, Afr. Journal of  Eco. 45, 4-16, doi:0.1111/j.1365-2028.2006.00707.x.

Annalisa C., S. Gualdi S. Masson, J.-J. Luo, S. K. Behera, T. Yamagata and A. Navarra, 2007: The influence of Tropical Indian Ocean SST on the Indian summer monsoon. J. Climate, 20, 3083–3105, doi:10.1175/JCLI4161.1.

Rao, S. A., S. Masson, J.-J. Luo, S. K. Behera, and T. Yamagata 2007: Termination of Indian Ocean Dipole events in a coupled general circulation model. J. Climate, 20, 3018–3035, doi:10.1175/JCLI4164.1.

2006:

Kug, J.-S., T. Li, S.-I1 An, I.-S. Kang, J.-J. Luo, S. Masson, and T.  Yamagata, 2006: Role of the ENSO-Indian Ocean coupling on ENSO variability in a coupled GCM, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L09710, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024916.

Behera, S. K., J.J. Luo, S. Masson, S. A. Rao, H. Sakuma and T. Yamagata, 2006: A CGCM study on the interaction between IOD and ENSO, J. Climate, 19, 1608-1705, doi:10.1175/JCLI3797.1.

Tozuka, T., J. J. Luo, S. Masson, and T. Yamagata 2006: Decadal modulations of the Indian Ocean Dipole in the SINTEX-F1 coupled GCM J. Climate, DOI: 10.1175/JCLI4168.1.

Chang, P., T. Yamagata, P. Schopf, S.K.Behera, J.Carton, W.S.Kessler, G. Meyers, T. Qu, F. Schott, S.Shetye, and S.-P.Xie, 2006: Climate Fluctions of Tropical Coupled Systems-The Role of Ocean Dynamics, J. Climate, 19, 5122-5174, doi:10.1175/JCLI3903.1.

Kayane, H., H. Iijima, N. Nakamura, T.R. McClanahan, S. Behera, and T.Yamagata, 2006: Indian Ocean Dipole index in Kenyan coral annual density bands , Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L19709,doi:10.1029/2006GL027168.

2005:

Luo, J.-J., S. Masson, S. Behera, S. Shingu, and T. Yamagata, 2005: Seasonal climate predictability in a coupled OAGCM using a different approach for ensemble forecasts, J. Climate, 18, 4474-4497. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI3526.1

Behera, S. K., J.-J. Luo, S. Masson, P. Delecluse, S. Gualdi, A. Navarra, and T. Yamagata, 2005: Paramount Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the East African Short Rains: A CGCM Study, J. Climate, 18, 4514-4530, doi: 10.1175/JCLI3541.1.

Rao, S.A., and S. K. Behera 2005: Subsurface influence on SST in the tropical Indian Ocean: structure and interannual variability Dyn. Atmos. Ocean. ,39, 103-135, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2004.10.014.

Patra, P.K., S. K. Behera, J. R. Herman, S. Maksyutov, H. Akimoto, and T. Yamagata 2005: The Indian summer monsoon rainfall: interplay of coupled dynamics, radiation and cloud microphysics Atmos. Chem. Phys., 5, 2181-2188. (LINK)

2004:

Ashok K., Z. Guan, N.H.Saji, and Yamagata. T., Individual and combined influences of ENSO and the Indian Ocean Dipole on the Indian Summer Monsoon. J.Climate, 17, 3141-3154, doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2004)017.

Rao, S.A and T. Yamagata, 2004: Abrupt termination of Indian Ocean Dipole events in response to intraseasonal disturbances Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L19306, doi:10.1029/2004GL020842.

Yamagata, T., S. K. Behera, J.J. Luo, S. Masson, M. R. Jury, and S. A. Rao 2004: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean, Earth's climate:The Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Geophysical Monograph Series 147, Eds. by Wang, C., S.-P. Xie, and J.A. Carton., 2004.

Ashok, K, W. Chan, T. Motoi, and T. Yamagata, 2004: Decadal variability of the Indian Ocean Dipole Geophys. Res. Lett. 31, L24207, doi:10.1029/2004GL021345.

Bhaskar Rao, D. V., K. Ashok, and T. Yamagata, 2004 : A Numerical Simulation Study of the Indian Summer Monsoon of 1994 using NCAR MM5. J. Meteor. Soc. Jpn., 82 (6), 1755-1775. (LINK)

2003:

Zubair, L., Suryachandra A. Rao. And T. Yamagata., 2003. Modulation of Sri Lankan Maha rainfall by the Indian Ocean Dipole. Geophysical Research Letters, 30, 2, 35-1 to 35-4, doi:10.1029/2002GL015639.

Guan, Z., K. Ashok and Yamagata, T., 2003. Summertime response of the tropical atmosphere to the Indian Ocean dipole sea surface temperature anomalies. Journal of Meteorological Society of Japan, 81. (LINK)

Guan, Z. and Yamagata, T., 2003. The unusual summer of 1994 in East Asia: IOD Teleconnections, Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2002GL016831.

Saji, N.H., and Yamagata, T., 2003. Structure of SST and surface wind variability during Indian Ocean Dipole Mode events: COADS observations. J. Climate, 16, 2735-2751, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016.

Saji, N.H., and Yamagata, T., 2003. Possible impacts of Indian Ocean dipole mode events on global climate. Climate Research, 25, 151-169.

Behera, S.K. and Yamagata. T., 2003. Influence of the Indian Ocean dipole on the Southern Oscillation. J. Met. Soc. Japan, 81,1,169-177, doi:10.2151/jmsj.81.169.

Ashok. K., Guan., Z., Yamagata., T., 2003. A look at the relationsship between the ENSO and the Indian Ocean Dipole, J. Met. Soc. Japan. 81,1, 41-56, doi:10.2151/jmsj.81.41.

Behera S.K., Rao A. S, Saji. N.H., and Yamagata. T., Comments on "A cautionary note on interpretation of EOFs" J. Climate, 16,7,1087-1093, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<1087:COACNO>2.0.CO;2.

Ashok K., Z. Guan, and Yamagata. T., Influence of the Indian Ocean dipole on the Australian winter rainfall Geophys. Res. Lett.,30,1821, doi:10.1029/2003GL017926.

S. K. Behera, J. Luo, S. Masson, T. Yamagata, P. Delecluse, S. Gualdi and A. Navarra Impact of the Indian Ocean dipole on the East African Short rains Clivar Exchanges, 27.

Yamagata, T., S. K. Behera, S. A. Rao, Z. Guan, K. Ashok, and H. N. Saji, 2003a: Comments on "Dipoles, Temperature Gradient, and Tropical Climate Anomalies", Bull. Amer. Met. Soc, 84, 1418-1422.

Yamagata, T., S.K.Behera, Z.Guan, 2003b: The role of the Indian Ocean in climate forecasting with a particular emphasis on summer conditions in East Asia. ECMWF Workshop proceedings, 102-114.

2002:

Suryachandra Rao A., S.K.Behera, Y.Masumoto and T.Yamagata. Interannual variability in the subsurface Indian Ocean with special emphasis on the Indian Ocean Dipole. 2002 Deep Sea Research-II, 49, 1549-1572.

P. N. Vinayachandran, S. Iizuka and T. Yamagata. Indian Ocean Dipole Mode Events in an Ocean General Circulation Model, 2001 Deep Sea Research - II, 49, 1573-1596.

Ashok, K., Guan, Z., and T.Yamagata. Weakening of the ENSO-Indian Monsoon rainfall relation: The Indian Ocean Connection, 2002 Clivar Exchanges, 7,10-11 Manuscript

Suryachandra Rao A., S.K.Behera, Y.Masumoto and T.Yamagata. Subsurface Interannual variability associated with the Indian Ocean Dipole. 2002 Clivar Exchanges, 7, 11-13, Manuscript

Suryachandra Rao A., V.V. Gopalakrishna, S.R.Shetye and T.Yamagata. Why were cool SST anomalies absent in the Bay of bengal during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole Event?. 2002 Geophys. Res. Lett. 29, 50-1 to 50-4, doi:10.1029/2001GL014645.

Toshio Yamagata, Swadhin K. Behera, Suryachandra A. Rao, Zhaoyong Guan, Karumuri Ashok and Hameed N. Saji 2002 The Indian Ocean Dipole: a Physical Entity (Clivar Exchanges)

2001:

Ashok, K., Guan, Z., and T.Yamagata. Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole on the relationship between the Indian monsoon rainfall and ENSO, 2001 Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 4499-4502, doi:10.1029/2001GL013294.

2000:

Behera, S.K., Salvekar, P.S., and Yamagata. T., 2000. Simulation of interannual SST variability in the tropical Indian Ocean. Journal of Climate, 3487-3489, doi: 10.1175/1520-0442(2000)013<3487:SOISVI>2.0.CO;2.

Iizuka, S., Matsuura, T., and Yamagata, T., 2000. The Indian Ocean SST dipole simulated in a coupled general circulation model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3369-3372, doi:10.1029/2000GL011484.


1999:

Behera, S.K., Krishnan, S., and Yamagata, T., 1999. Unusual ocean-atmosphere conditions in the tropical Indian Ocean during 1994. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 3001-3004, 10.1029/1999GL010434.

Saji, N.H., Goswami, B.N., Vinayachandran, P.N., and Yamagata, T., 1999. A dipole mode in the tropical Indian Ocean., Nature 401, 360-363. (LINK)


Vinayachandran., P.N., Saji, N.H., and Yamagata, T., 1999. Response of the equatorial Indian Ocean to an anomalous wind event during 1994. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1613-1616.