Chapter Eleven

Indian Ocean

Data files supplied for Chapter 11 exercises

  • WOA98_heavideci_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA98_heavydeci_Indian.poa

  • WOA_decimated_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA05_decimated_Indian.joa

  • WOA_basin_global_gridded_data: →

    • WOA05_Indian.joa

  • Indian sections: →

    • I04_I03_1995: →

      • I04_I03_1995_bottle.joa

    • I08S_I09N_2007: →

      • I8S_I9N_2007_clean_bottle.joa

      • I8S_I9N_2007_heavydeci_ctd.joa

    • I06S_2008: →

      • I06_2008_clean_CTD.joa

      • I06S_2008_clean_bottle.joa

    • I05_1987: →

      • I05_1987_bottle.joa

    • I09S_1995: →

      • I09S_1995_bottle.joa

    • I05_2009: →

      • I05_2009_clean_bottle.joa

      • I05_2009_clean_CTD.joa

    • I02_1995_1996: →

      • I02_1995_1996_bottle.joa

    • I04_I03_2003: →

      • I04_I03_2003_clean_bottle.joa

    • WOA_copies_of_Indian_sections: →

      • I8S_I9N_WOA05.joa

    • I01_1995: →

      • I01_1995_clean_bottle.joa

    • I04S_I07N_1995: →

      • I04S_I07N_1995_bottle.joa

Download: Chapter 11 Data Files

Goals

  • Understand the water masses, circulation and other aspects of descriptive physical oceanography of the Indian Ocean & its marginal seas

To accomplish this, one will:

  • Learn to extract data subsets from map plots

  • Learn how to use advanced JOA tools for working with basin-scale data sets

Tools

  • JOA Section Editor

  • Interpolations Options dialog box

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Fig 11i-01 Indian sections map

DPO Chapter 11 Sections

DPO JOA examples are available for the following emphasized sections:

11.1

Introduction and overview

11.2

Wind and buoyancy forcing

11.2.1

Mean wind forcing

11.2.2

Monsoonal wind forcing

11.2.3

Buoyancy forcing

11.3

Monsoonal and tropical ocean circulation

11.4

South Indian Ocean subtropical circulation

11.4.1

Subtropical gyre

11.4.2

Agulhas Current and Retroflection

11.4.3

Leeuwin Current

11.5

Indonesian Throughflow

11.6

Red Sea and Persian Gulf outflows

11.7

Intermediate and deep circulation

11.8

Water masses

11.8.1

Upper ocean

11.8.2

Intermediate waters

11.8.3

Deep and bottom waters

11.9

Climate and the Indian Ocean