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TI SMOS reveals the signature of Indian Ocean Dipole events
BT 
AF DURAND, F
   ALORY, Gael
   DUSSIN, Raphael
   REUL, Nicolas
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:3;
FF 1:;2:;3:;4:PDG-ODE-LOS;
C1 Univ Toulouse 3, CNRS CNES IRD UPS, UMR 5566, LEGOS, F-31401 Toulouse 09, France.
   LEGI, F-38041 Grenoble 09, France.
   Ctr Mediterranee, IFREMER, LOS, F-83507 La Seyne Sur Mer, France.
C2 LEGOS, FRANCE
   LEGI, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
SI TOULON
SE PDG-ODE-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-univ-france
IF 1.683
TC 33
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00161/27234/25481.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;SSS;Indian Ocean Dipole;SMOS;ARGO;ENSO
AB The tropical Indian Ocean experiences an interannual mode of climatic variability, known as the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD). The signature of this variability in ocean salinity is hypothesized based on modeling and assimilation studies, on account of scanty observations. Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been designed to take up the challenge of sea surface salinity remote sensing. We show that SMOS data can be used to infer the pattern of salinity variability linked with the IOD events. The core of maximum variability is located in the central tropical basin, south of the equator. This region is anomalously salty during the 2010 negative IOD event, and anomalously fresh during the 2011 positive IOD event. The peak-to-peak anomaly exceeds one salinity unit, between late 2010 and late 2011. In conjunction with other observational datasets, SMOS data allow us to draw the salt budget of the area. It turns out that the horizontal advection is the main driver of salinity anomalies. This finding is confirmed by the analysis of the outputs of a numerical model. This study shows that the advent of SMOS makes it feasible the quantitative assessment of the mechanisms of ocean surface salinity variability in the tropical basins, at interannual timescales.
PY 2013
PD DEC
SO Ocean Dynamics
SN 1616-7341
PU Springer Heidelberg
VL 63
IS 11-12
UT 000327859700005
BP 1203
EP 1212
DI 10.1007/s10236-013-0660-y
ID 27234
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