ABSTRACT
The tropical Indo-Pacific domain is important for global climate as the warm pool region rooted in both basins plays an important role in the modulation of ocean and atmosphere variability on multiple scales of space and time. The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is a prominent mode of climate variability with large impacts on the variability of ocean and atmosphere not only within the basin but also outside of it. The El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon with warmer sea surface temperature anomaly in the tropical eastern Pacific is the dominant mode of ocean-atmosphere variability in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The ENSO is historically linked to the Indian summer monsoon rainfall variability. Ashok et al. further confirmed this relationship with a long record of data and found that the emergence of the IOD influence in the Indian Ocean has reduced the ENSO impacts on monsoon.
