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Teleconnection Between ENSO and Wind-Wave Climate Under the Influence of Monsoon in the Bay of Bengal Region

Mourani Sinha1 * and Amitava Jana2

Corresponding author Email: mou510@gmail.com

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.15.3.10

Wind-wave parameters like the significant wave height (SWH)impacts considerably deep ocean and maritime activities and lives of all those dwelling near the coast.Prediction of such a parameter has immense utility during extreme conditions. Teleconnection features are explored between the most widely studied climate mode, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation or ENSO and the SWHparameter in the Bay of Bengal (BB) region under the influence of monsoon in this study.In two separate experiments the SWH data of the BB region for the period 1958-2001 and the period 2006-2016 is subjected to empirical orthogonal function analysis to split the data into spatial and temporal parts.The temporal variations are of annual periodicity for both the data sets. On analysis teleconnection feature of lower (higher) SWH during El Niño (La Niña) episodes is observed in the BB region. Significant correlationis observed between SWH and the ENSO indices during the summer monsoon months.The continuous wavelet power spectrum is generated using the first principal component (PC1) extracted above. It exhibits significant regions in the 0.5-1 year band resembling the monsoon variability in the BB region. To determine how SWH is related to the ENSO indices wavelet coherence is applied for the BB region.The higher coherency regions are found in the 0.5-1 year band which maybe related to the monsoon oscillation having similar periodicity. Thus the SWH and ENSO relationship in the BB region is influenced by the monsoon significantly.

Bay of Bengal; Monsoon; Niño3.4 Index; Significant Wave Height; Wavelet Analysis

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Sinha M, Jana A. Teleconnection Between ENSO and Wind-Wave Climate Under the Influence of Monsoon in the Bay of Bengal Region. Curr World Environ 2020;15(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.15.3.10

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