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
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 |