TAS: Indian Ocean moorings could predict drought, tsunamis

AAP General News (Australia);  April 2, 2005 ;     573 words ......phenomenon in the Indian Ocean highlights...to predict," Dr Meyers said. While...in 2000 and Dr Meyers expects that...investment in the Indian Ocean observing system...impact that the Indian Ocean has on Australia," Dr Meyers said. The full...

Neglected no longer: strategic rivalry in the Indian Ocean....

Harvard International Review;  June 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......decade in the strategic wilderness, the Indian Ocean region is again becoming an arena of...Port Victoria in the Seychelles. The Indian Ocean was also significant in the nuclear...Due to this clash of superpowers and Indian Ocean states' perception of these powers as...

A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.(Book...

Journal of World History;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. By...carried on the warm waves of the Indian Ocean. This body of water's scholarship...the unfortunate omission of the Indian Ocean from The American Historical Review...

Influence of Low-Frequency Indonesian Throughflow Transport on...

Journal of Climate;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......between 3- and 10-yr variability in Indian Ocean temperatures and Indonesian throughflow...changes in ITF volume transport and Indian Ocean surface atmospheric forcing in determining...low-frequency temperature variations in the Indian Ocean. In the PCM, low-frequency variations...

Pathways and Effects of the Indonesian Throughflow Water in the Indian...

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) in the Indian Ocean are identified using an OGCM, with a...Australia and then travels across the Indian Ocean along the thermocline depths. The subsurface...directly departs westward and crosses the Indian Ocean. Using the passive tracers, which are...

Understanding the Impacts of the Indian Ocean on ENSO Variability in a...

Journal of Climate;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......study investigates the impacts of the Indian Ocean on El Nio-Southern Oscillation (ENSO...forcing. It is found that, when the Indian Ocean is decoupled from the atmosphere, the...and occurs more frequently when the Indian Ocean SST in summer is relatively cold (warm...

Cousin of El Nino Haunts Indian Ocean.(climatology)(Brief Article)

Science News;  September 25, 1999 ;     628 words ......climate researchers have regarded the Indian Ocean as a boring basin, lacking the commotion...identified the climatic kin of El Nino in the Indian Ocean, where it caused widespread weather...water temperatures along the equatorial Indian Ocean have a habit of flip-flopping. Usually...

MODERN HISTORY AND POLITICS: A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the...

The Middle East Journal;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......AND POLITICS A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire, by Sugata...seeks to reconstruct the history of the Indian Ocean during an era when historians of the Indian Ocean agree this oceanic region lost its historical...

Special Issue on Indian Ocean Climate*

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In the past, great advances in Indian Ocean research have emerged after expeditions...observational programs such as the International Indian Ocean Expedition (1960-65) and ship surveys...interaction phenomenon across the tropical Indian Ocean. It involved abnormally high sea surface...

Scientists back El Nino network in Indian Ocean.

M2 Presswire;  November 14, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Scientists back El Nino network in Indian Ocean (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...similar system is proposed for the Indian Ocean. Better climate prediction for the nations around the Indian Ocean would improve the lives of billions...

natural logics of the indian ocean

Cultural Studies Review;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Narratives of the Sea: Encapsulating the Indian Ocean World', a conference which took place...discipline of history has a stranglehold on Indian Ocean studies in the subcontinent or that...interdisciplinary approaches to the Indian Ocean are fairly new, and that ecological...

Security concerns in the Indian Ocean: Making waves?

RUSI Journal;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ...The Indian Ocean has been and is the scene for many...approach to security concerns in the Indian Ocean needs to be re-examined Professor...maritime aspects of security in the Indian Ocean area. It will then move on to consider...

Indian Ocean Variability in the GFDL Coupled Climate Model

Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The interannual variability of the Indian Ocean, with particular focus on the Indian Ocean dipole/zonal mode (IODZM), is investigated...characteristics of the climate system of the Indian Ocean. The character of the IODZM is explored...

Indian Ocean Countries: Chapter 1A. Strategic Considerations

Countries of the World;      700+ words ......the island societies of the western Indian Ocean both historically and in modern times...continue in mid-1982 to operate in the Indian Ocean and to figure largely in the national...outside military forces in the western Indian Ocean was a continuing reminder to the five...

Indian Ocean Variability and Its Association with ENSO in a Global Coupled...

Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT The evolution of the Indian Ocean during El Nio-Southern Oscillation is...induced across the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean. These act to suppress the equatorial...east (west). Subsequently, the entire Indian Ocean basin warms, mainly in response to the...