Articles | Volume 14, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1541-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-1541-2017
Research article
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27 Mar 2017
Research article |  | 27 Mar 2017

Positive Indian Ocean Dipole events prevent anoxia off the west coast of India

Parvathi Vallivattathillam, Suresh Iyyappan, Matthieu Lengaigne, Christian Ethé, Jérôme Vialard, Marina Levy, Neetu Suresh, Olivier Aumont, Laure Resplandy, Hema Naik, and Wajih Naqvi

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During late boreal summer and fall, the west coast of India (WCI) experiences hypoxia, which turns into anoxia during some years. We analyze a coupled physical–biogeochemical simulation over the 1960–2012 period to investigate the physical processes influencing oxycline interannual variability off the WCI. We show that fall WCI oxycline fluctuations are strongly related to Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), with positive IODs preventing anoxia, while negative IODs do not necessarily result in anoxia.
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