Extreme Positive Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019 and Its Impact on Indonesia

Iskandar, Iskhaq and Irfan, Muhammad and Mardiansyah, Wijaya (2022) Extreme Positive Indian Ocean Dipole in 2019 and Its Impact on Indonesia. Sustainability, 14 (15155). pp. 1-15. ISSN 20711050

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Abstract

Abstract: The evolution of an extreme positive Indian Ocean Dipole (pIOD) that took place in the tropical Indian Ocean during the late boreal summer to early winter of 2019 is examined in terms of coupled ocean–atmosphere dynamics. The patterns of anomalous sea-surface temperature (SST) revealed a typical pIOD characteristic: cooling (warming) in the southeastern (western) tropical Indian Ocean. Based on the Dipole Mode Index (DMI), the evolution of the event started in mid-July and gradually strengthened with an abrupt weakening in early September before coming to its peak in late October/early November. It quickly weakened in November, and then it terminated in mid-December. During the peak phase of the event, the SST anomaly in the southeastern (western) tropical Indian Ocean reached about 2 The pattern of anomalous SST was followed by an anomalous pattern in precipitation, in which deficit precipitation was observed over the eastern Indian Ocean, particularly over the Indonesia region. Earlier study has shown that dry conditions associated with the pIOD event created a favorable condition for a forest-peat fire in southern Sumatra. The number of fire hotspots has increased significantly during the peak phase of the 2019 IOD event. In addition, anomalously strong upwelling forced by strong southeasterly wind anomalies along the southern coast of Java and Sumatra had induced a surface chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) bloom in this region. High surface Chl-a concentration was collocated with the negative SST anomalies observed off the southwest Sumatra coast and south Java.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics > QC980-999 Climatology and weather
Divisions: 08-Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science > 45201-Physics (S1)
Depositing User: Dr. Muhammad Irfan
Date Deposited: 24 Dec 2022 12:27
Last Modified: 24 Dec 2022 12:27
URI: http://repository.unsri.ac.id/id/eprint/84251

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