Biennial Oscillation Of Indian Summer Monsoon And Global Surface Climate In The Present Decade

• Main Author: Menon, Arathy
• Other Authors: Sengupta, Debasis
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Climate; Meteorology - India; Monsoons - India; Monsoons - India - Biennial Oscillation; Surface Climate - Biennial Oscillation; Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation (TBO); Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction; Biennial Oscillation (Climate); Indian Summer Monsoon; El-Nino Southern Oscillation; ENSO Induced Variability; Quasi-biennial Oscillation; QBO Induced Variability; Meteorology; Arctic; India Bay; Indian; Pacific
• Online Access: https://etd.iisc.ac.in/handle/2005/960

The ENSO-monsoon system is known to have a biennial component. Here we show using high resolution satellite data, mainly daily rainfall and sea surface temperature (SST) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), and daily scatterometer surface winds from QuickSCAT, that there is a clear b...