赤道东太平洋海温异常增暖对低频振荡影响的数值试验

为研究海温的异常增暖对３０－６０天低频振荡的影响，利用ＯＳＵ两层大气环流模式作了两组试验：一组使用气候平均海温，另一组包括两个试验，它们分别设正的海温距平（ΔＳＳＴ）中心位于赤道东太平洋的东部（１００°Ｗ）和中部（１４５°Ｗ）。结果表明：赤道东太平洋冬半年的海温异常增暖可改变低频振荡方差贡献的地理分布，其中当正的ΔＳＳＴ中心位于赤道东太平洋的东部时，热带印度洋和西太平洋地区的低频振荡的方差贡献较为显著，而热带东太平洋的低频振荡较为不活跃；当正的ΔＳＳＴ中心位于赤道东太平洋的中部时，情形则相反，即热带东太平洋的低频振荡的方差贡献较显著，而西太平洋地区的则不活跃。在赤道东太平洋海温异常增暖过程中，低频振荡的传播特性对ΔＳＳＴ中心位置的响应是敏感的，即当正的ΔＳＳＴ中心位置偏于该海区的东部或中部时，低频振荡的传播方向和传播速度有明显的差异     

热带印度洋和太平洋ISO活动特征的异同

基于再分析资料,对比分析了热带印度洋和太平洋地区大气季节内振荡（ISO）活动特征的异同。结果表明:印度洋和西太平洋地区ISO活动中心在4月和10月存在季节性跳跃,并且ISO在西太平洋地区活动中心位置南北跳跃的经向距离较印度洋偏大。ISO较强的活动中心也是ISO强度年较差较大的地区,并且各个活动中心ISO强度达到最强的时间存在明显的差异。ISO活动存在显著的年际和年代际变化,在20世纪80年代ISO的活动强度和变化趋势都存在一个明显的转折。夏季印度洋和西太平洋地区ISO都存在较强的北传,赤道地区印度洋ISO强度较强,而赤道以外地区西太平洋ISO强度较强;并且ISO在西太平洋地区北传的速度较印度洋偏慢。无论是冬季还是夏季,当ISO活跃于印度洋和西太平洋时,ISO的空间分布和垂直结构特征都有着明显的差异。     

南海—热带西北太平洋地区季节内尺度海气变化关系

本文系统地回顾了作者近年来关于南海-热带西北太平洋地区大气和海洋季节内尺度变化关系方面的主要研究成果。文中对10~20天和30~60天两种季节内振荡海气变化关系的不同以及冬、夏季间的差异进行了系统地比较。相比较而言,大气中10~20天振荡所占比例大于30~60天振荡,海表温度30~60天的振荡在南海和西北太平洋副热带地区比10~20天振荡的贡献大,而在低纬度西太平洋地区10~20天振荡与30~60天振荡贡献相近或稍大。在北半球夏季,10~20天低频振荡的分布呈西南—东北走向,由赤道西太平洋地区向西北偏西方向传播,而30~60天低频振荡则以东西向分布为主,表现为由南向北的传播特征。在北半球冬季,10~20天和30~60天两种低频振荡的水平结构类似,均表现为西南—东北走向;同时,南海地区季节内变化信号表现出明显的向南传播的独特特征,并与东亚冬季风的季节内变化密切相关。北半球夏季,南海—菲律宾海地区10~20天低频振荡强度在厄尔尼诺发展年得到加强,而30~60天低频振荡强度则在拉尼娜衰减年得以加强。分析还指出,热带西北太平洋地区夏季热带辐合带附近的季节内变化,尤其是10~20天尺度变化,对季节平均海表温度异常有显著的反馈作用。     

热带印度洋MJO活动对孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡的影响

通过对1979—2008年热带太平洋30—60 d振荡(Madden-Julian Oscillation,MJO)指数、美国国家环境预报中心再分析资料和日本气象厅降水资料的分析,发现热带东印度洋MJO强度和传播状况影响孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡及相关低频环流、对流和降水分布。当热带东印度洋MJO在春末夏初较活跃时,孟加拉湾西南季风季节内振荡活动在4—8月比其不活跃时提前约20 d(约1/2个周期),其对于孟加拉湾西南季风季节内振荡的影响可持续整个季风期,使西南季风的季节内振荡不仅酝酿期和活跃期提前发生,季风期有所延长,季节内振荡也更强。西南季风季节内振荡具有明显的北传和东传特征,北传沿孟加拉湾通道从赤道向副热带推进,而东传则沿10°—20°N从孟加拉湾向东传至南海地区。春末夏初时热带东印度洋MJO的异常状况,正是通过对西南季风季节内振荡东传和北传的影响,进而对孟加拉湾西南季风季节内振荡在季风期的酝酿、维持和活跃产生作用,这种作用同时体现在强度和时间上。孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡强度与热带东印度洋MJO在4月21日—5月5日的活动呈现显著负相关,当热带东印度洋MJO在春末夏初较活跃时,孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡的强度较大,在5—8月经历3次季节内振荡波动,低频对流场和环流场在1—3位相(孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡为正位相)和4—6位相(负位相)时呈反位相特征,这是由MJO低频对流的东传及在孟加拉湾和南海这两个通道上的北传引起的。从印度半岛到菲律宾群岛的降水在1—3位相和4—6位相上分别为正异常和负异常,其中,在第2位相(孟加拉湾西南季风季节内振荡波峰)和第5位相(孟加拉湾西南季风季节内振荡波谷)时分别为降水最大正异常和最大负异常。反之,在热带印度洋MJO在春末夏初不活跃年时,孟加拉湾西南夏季风季节内振荡活动较弱,强度偏弱且振荡也不规律。     

ITCZ的季节内振荡及其与热带气旋发生阶段性的关系

利用中国气象局提供的热带气旋资料和NCEP/NCAR再分析等资料, 研究了热带辐合带(Intertropical Convergence Zone, 简称ITCZ)上对流强度的季节内振荡特征及其与热带气旋生成频数阶段性变化的关系, 并进一步研究了它与越赤道气流、 赤道西风和ITCZ北侧偏东风季节内振荡的关系。研究发现: (1) ITCZ对流强度的变化有明显的30～60 d振荡, 西太平洋 (5°N～20°N, 120°E～150°E) 范围内的热带气旋约有2/3发生在30～60 d振荡的活跃位相。(2) ITCZ季节内振荡在热带地区表现为向东传播的特征, 而在副热带地区 (25°N～35°N) 表现出清晰的西传特征。在ITCZ季节内振荡较强年, 振荡在由赤道传播至15°N左右时, 与北面向南传播的振荡在该纬度附近汇合, 对流强度增强, 使热带气旋在此期间频繁发生。而在弱年, 振荡由赤道一直向北传播至30°N附近, 15°N附近的ITCZ对流较弱, 热带气旋生成偏少。(3) 赤道西风、105°E～110°E越赤道气流和ITCZ北侧的偏东风气流本身也存在30～60 d振荡。这三支气流的30～60 d振荡与ITCZ的季节内强弱变化密切相关。然而, 相比之下偏东风气流的30～60 d振荡和ITCZ对流强弱的30～60 d振荡对应关系略差。     

热带风场季内振荡强度与海表温度异常关系研究

利用NCEP/NCAR逐日风场及英国气象局逐月海表温度资料,研究了对流层高低层风场季内振荡强度季节变化特征,探讨了其年际及年代际异常特征与海表温度异常的关系。热带印度洋、热带西太平洋是高低层风场季内振荡终年均活跃的区域。对流层高低层风场季内振荡强度异常与海表温度异常均不存在确定的局地关系。风场季内振荡能量异常与海表温度异常在年代际尺度上具有良好对应关系,20世纪70年代中后期以来,赤道东太平洋海温异常升高,Walker环流减弱,导致亚洲区域季风季内振荡强度减弱,赤道太平洋区域200hPa（850hPa）风场季内振荡在赤道东太平洋增强（减弱）,在印度洋东南部—印尼—中西太平洋的暖池区域减弱（增强）,促进了ElNino事件的增强。对流层高低层风场季内振荡强度年际异常与ElNino事件关系密切,这一特征在低层（850hPa）风场表现更显著。在事件发展初期,热带中西太平洋区域850hPa风场季内振荡异常增强并东移,事件发生之后这些区域能量减弱。大气季内振荡可能是ElNino事件的激发因素。     

热带太平洋环流季节变化的数值模拟

在观测到的海表风应力和热量及淡水通量驱动下，用大气物理研究所发展的高分辨率自由表面热带太平洋环流模式对热带太平洋环流季节变化进行了数值模拟。对模拟得到的热带太平洋海面起伏、温度场和流场等季节变化分析、比较表明，模式成功地模拟了观测到的环流季节变化基本特征。其中，海面起伏中西北太平洋副热带反气旋环流在冬季最强，赤道槽在冬季和早春季强，而赤道脊和北赤道逆流槽则在秋季强；北赤道逆流在秋季强而春季弱，150°W附近区域赤道表层洋流流向在4至7月逆转；赤道东太平洋地区海表温度场春季增暖和秋冷却；以及次表层赤道斜温层     

1982—2009年冬夏两季热带季节内振荡的趋势特征

采用1982—2009年美国国家海洋与大气管理局(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,NOAA)逐日向外长波辐射(outgoing longwave radiation,OLR)资料,利用EOF方法,分析了20～70 d北半球夏季(6—9月)季节内振荡(boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation,BSISO)与冬季(12月—次年2月)季节内振荡(也称Madden-Julian Oscillation,MJO)不同的强度趋势。结果表明:BSISO指数有明显加强的趋势,而MJO指数的趋势则不明显。进一步利用频率—波数分析方法将季节内振荡(intraseasonal oscillation,ISO)分成西传和东传两部分。结果表明:东传的BSISO在其活动中心——热带印度洋地区有显著加强的趋势,而东传的MJO在其活动中心的趋势则不明显,仅在其活动中心西南部即热带印度洋西南部有减弱的趋势。为探究其原因,文章进一步分析了海表温度(sea surface temperature,SST)和纬向风垂直切变的趋势变化。结果表明:1982—2009年,西太平洋和印度洋SST无论冬夏均持续增暖,SST并不能解释冬夏两季ISO不同的趋势特征;而夏季热带印度洋地区对流层中低层东风垂直切变减弱,冬季海洋性大陆地区东风垂直切变增强。由此认为:热带印度洋东风垂直切变减弱有可能有利于东传的BSISO加强;而海洋性大陆地区东风垂直切变加强有可能削弱东传的MJO,但这种减弱效应被冬季海洋性大陆地区增强的上升运动产生的加强效应抵消,所以MJO的变化趋势并不显著。     

南海周边越赤道气流的多时间尺度变化特征及其与环流和降水的联系

利用NCAR/NCEP-1再分析资料、NOAA的OLR资料以及GPCP降水资料等,通过功率谱分析、超前滞后回归等方法,对夏季南海周边105 °E、125 °E以及150 °E三支越赤道气流进行了多尺度特征分析,重点探讨三支越赤道气流季节内振荡与热带大气环流异常及南海周边降水的联系。结果表明,在季节内时间尺度上,105 °E与125 °E越赤道气流均具有10~20 d以及30~60 d低频振荡显著周期,而150 °E越赤道气流则以10~20 d周期为主。在年际尺度上,105 °E、125 °E、150 °E越赤道气流分别具有2~4年、2~3年、2~6年振荡周期。无论是季内还是年际变化,皆以105 °E与125 °E这两支越赤道气流之间关系较密切。南亚-南海-西太平洋地区对流层低层10~20 d振荡的气旋(对流加强)和反气旋(对流减弱)的环流活动变化,决定着105 °E及125 °E越赤道气流的10~20 d振荡的演变。这两支越赤道气流之30~60 d振荡所伴随的异常变化与热带夏季季节内振荡(BSISO)的演变过程非常相似,而150 °E越赤道气流之30~60 d振荡所伴随的异常低频环流则与南半球热带辐合带关系密切。105 °E及125 °E越赤道气流的季节内振荡及年际异常均与南海周边降水异常密切相关。      

印度洋海温年际异常与热带夏季季节内振荡的关系及其数值模拟研究

利用观测分析资料和SINTEX-F海气耦合长时间(70年)数值模拟结果,分析了印度洋海温年际异常与热带夏季季节内振荡(BSISO)各种传播模态之间关系及其物理过程。结果表明,印度洋海温年际异常与热带BSISO关系密切,当印度洋为正(负)偶极子情况,中东印度洋北传BSISO减弱(加强);当印度洋为正(负)海盆异常(BWA)情况,印度洋西太平洋赤道地区(40°E -180°)东传BSISO加强(减弱)。印度洋海温年际变化通过大气环流背景场和BSISO结构影响热带BSISO不同传播模态强度的年际变化。在负(正)偶极子年夏季,由于对流层大气垂直东风切变加强(减弱),对流扰动北侧的正压涡度、边界层水汽辐合加强更明显(不明显),导致形成BSISO较强(弱)的经向不对称结构,因此北传BSISO偏强(减弱)。印度洋BWA模态通过影响赤道西风背景以及海气界面热力交换,导致赤道东传BSISO强度产生变化。在正BWA年夏季,赤道地区西风较明显,当季节内振荡叠加在这种西风背景下,扰动中心的东侧(西侧)风速减弱(加强)更明显,海面蒸发及蒸发潜热减弱(加强)更明显,导致扰动中心的东侧(西侧)海温升高(降低)幅度更大,从而使边界层产生辐合(辐散)更强、水汽更多(少),因此赤道东传BSISO偏强;而在负BWA年,赤道地区西风背景减弱,以上物理过程受削弱使赤道东传BSISO偏弱。     

热带低层大气30～60天低频动能的年际变化与ENSO循环

利用NCEP再分析资料,通过统计相关及合成分析研究了热带大气季节内振荡(ISO)的年际变化与ENSO循环之间的关系.结果表明,热带大气季节内振荡(也称30～60天低频振荡)的年际变化在热带中西太平洋地区最强.在ElNino成熟之前的春夏季,热带西太平洋的30～60天振荡异常活跃,其动能明显增加且逐渐东移;在E1Nino成熟以后,热带西太平洋大气30～60天低频振荡迅速减弱.与这种加强的30～60天振荡相伴随,在赤道北侧为异常的气旋式环流,赤道地区出现偏西风异常.相反,在LaNina成熟之前的春夏季,热带西太平洋大气30～60天振荡偏弱.进一步的分析还发现,东亚冬季风的年际变化是引起热带大气30～60天振荡的年际变化的主要机制:强东亚冬季风导致热带西太平洋积云对流加强,从而引起热带西太平洋大气30～60天振荡加强;相反,对应于弱的东亚冬季风,热带西太平洋地区积云对流偏弱,大气30～60天振荡偏弱.作者的资料分析还证实,热带大气30～60天低频振荡的年际变化,作为一种外强迫,对ElNino的形成起着十分重要的作用.     

Teleconnections associated with Northern Hemisphere summer monsoon intraseasonal oscillation

The boreal summer intraseasonal oscillation (BSISO) has strong convective activity centers in Indian (I), Western North Pacific (WNP), and North American (NA) summer monsoon (SM) regions. The present study attempts to reveal BSISO teleconnection patterns associated with these dominant intraseasonal variability centers. During the active phase of ISM, a zonally elongated band of enhanced convection extends from India via the Bay of Bengal and Philippine Sea to tropical central Pacific with suppressed convection over the eastern Pacific near Mexico. The corresponding extratropical circulation anomalies occur along the waveguides generated by the North African-Asian jet and North Atlantic-North European jet. When the tropical convection strengthens over the WNPSM sector, a distinct great circle-like Rossby wave train emanates from the WNP to the western coast of United States (US) with an eastward shift of enhanced meridional circulation. In the active phase of NASM, large anticyclonic anomalies anchor over the western coast of US and eastern Canada and the global teleconnection pattern is similar to that during a break phase of the ISM. Examination of the evolution of the BSISO teleconnection reveals quasi-stationary patterns with preferred centers of teleconnection located at Europe, Russia, central Asia, East Asia, western US, and eastern US and Canada, respectively. Most centers are embedded in the waveguide along the westerly jet stream, but the centers at Europe and Russia occur to the north of the jet-induced waveguide. Eastward propagation of the ISO teleconnection is evident over the Pacific-North America sector. The rainfall anomalies over the elongated band near the monsoon domain over the Indo-western Pacific sector have an opposite tendency with that over the central and southern China, Mexico and southern US, providing a source of intraseasonal predictability to extratropical regions. The BSISO teleconnection along and to the north of the subtropical jet provides a good indication of the surface sir temperature anomalies in the NH extratropics.     

Global-scale intraseasonal and annual variation of divergent water-vapor flux

Summary The global-scale intraseasonal and annual variations of divergent water-vapor transport and water vapor itself were examined by using outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) and data for 1979–1986 produced by the Global Data Assimilation System of the National Meteorological Center. An effort was also made to contrast results of this study with previous analyses of OLR and upper-level divergent circulation.As for intraseasonal oscillation, positive (negative) precipitable-water (W) anomalies and negative (positive) OLR couple with the convergent (divergent) center of the potential function of water vapor transport () anomalies and the divergent (convergent) center of upper-level divergent-circulation anomalies. It is inferred that the eastward-propagating divergent circulation of intraseasonal oscillation converges water vapor to maintain cumulus convection, which releases latent heat, possibly to support this low-frequency oscillation. Fluctuations of W and cumulus convection associated with this oscillation are large over the equatorial Indian Ocean and the equatorial western Pacific, but small over the tropical Americas and equatorial Africa. Moreover, during northern summer, W anomaly bands migrate regularly northward, following the low-level transient 30–50 day monsoon troughs and ridges over the northern Indian Ocean. To the south of the equator, a regular southward propagation of W anomaly bands is identified in both northern summer and winter. In contrast; over the northwestern Pacific, a signature depicting the north-south intraseasonal oscillation of the north Pacific Convergence Zone can be inferred by W anomalies.The annual cycle components of W and cumulus convection inferred from OLR anomalies exhibit three pairs of maximum-minimum centers over tropical continents. These centers correspond to those of and upper-level divergent circulation anomalies. It is shown that landmass cooling in the winter hemisphere and landmass warming in the summer hemisphere establish a pair of upper-level convergent-divergent centers over each tropical continent. Water vapor is converged (diverged) by divergent circulation, in order to maintain maximum (minimum) centers of W and cumulusconvection anomalies over each tropical continent.With 7 Figures     

The ISO Events in the Winter of 2007

The intraseasonal oscillation (ISO) events that occurred from November 2007 to February 2008 in the tropical Indian Ocean region were investigated by analyzing observational oceanic and atmospheric datasets.The results reveal that two ISO events were generated and developed from November 2007 to February 2008 in the tropical area of the Indian Ocean,which both originated from the southern African continent and propagated along a northeastward direction and finally penetrated into the equatorial eastern Indian Ocean.Compared with the general winter MJO event,which tended to travel along the equator from the western Indian Ocean into the western Pacific,the ISO of winter 2007 propagated not only along the equator into the eastern part of the Indian Ocean but was also transported northward into the subtropical region in the eastern Indian Ocean,which is more similar to the behavior of traditional summer ISO events.     

Evolution of Intraseasonal Oscillation over the Tropica lWestern Pacific/South China Sea and Its Effect to the Summer Precipitation in Southern China

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Evolution of intraseasonal oscillation over the tropical western pacific / south china sea and its effect to the summer precipitation in southern china{1{

In this paper, the evolution of intraseasonal oscillation over the South China Sea and tropical western Pacific area and its effect to the summer rainfall in the southern China are studied based on the ECMWF data and TBB data) analyses. A very low-frequency waves exist in the tropics and play an important role in dominating intraseasonal oscillation and lead to special seasonal variation of intraseasonal oscillation over the South China Sea / tropical western Pacific area. The intraseasonal oscillation (convection) over the South China Sea and tropical western Pacific area is closely related to the summer rainfall (convection) in the southern China. Their relationship seems to be a seesaw feature, and this relationship resulting from the different pattern of convection in those two re-gions is caused by the different type of local meridional circulation     

OLR资料所揭示的热带地区低频振荡的变化特征

本文使用1979年1月至1984年12月射出长波辐射(OLR)资料,对热带地区低频振荡的一些特性进行了研究,认为正常年份30—60天振荡的合成功率谱最强,El Nino年最弱。低频波活动冬夏差异较大,其年际变化大值区冬季在赤道地区,夏季位置偏北,位于印度洋和西太平洋。就六年平均而言,低频波在西太平洋及印度洋地区有明显的经向传播,赤道地区低频波的纬向传播主要集中在北半球夏季。此外,30—60天OLR滤波场的强弱与印度季风的爆发和减弱有较好的对应关系。      

A Survey of Statistical Relationships between Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Convectively Coupled Equatorial Rossby Waves

Convectively coupled equatorial Rossby waves(ERW)modulate tropical cyclone activities over tropical oceans.This study presents a survey of the statistical relationship between intraseasonal ERWs and tropical cyclone genesis(TCG)over major global TC basins using four-decade-long outgoing longwave radiation(OLR)and TC best-track datasets.Intraseasonal ERWs are identified from the OLR anomalies using an empirical orthogonal function(EOF)analysis method without imposing equatorial symmetry.We find that westward-propagating ERWs are most significant in four tropical ocean basins over the summer hemisphere and that ERWs exhibit similar northeast-southwest(southeast-northwest)tilted phase lines in the northern(southern)hemisphere,with an appreciable poleward advance of wave energy in most TC basins.The EOF-based ERW indices quantitatively show that ERWs significantly modulate TC genesis.The convectively active(suppressed)phases of ERWs coincide with increased(reduced)TCG occurrences.The TCG modulation by ERWs achieves the maximum where the ERWs propagate through the climatological TCG hotspots.As a result,the total number of TCG occurrences in the TC basins varies significantly according to the ERW phase.The ERW-TCG relationship is significant over the northwestern Pacific Ocean,northeastern Pacific Ocean,and the northern Indian Ocean during the northern summer seasons.In the southern summer season,the ERW-TCG relationship is significant over the southern Indian Ocean,Indonesian-Australia basin,and the southwestern Pacific Ocean.However,ERW activities are weak in the main TC development region of the Atlantic Ocean;and the impact on Atlantic TCG appears to be insignificant.     

南北半球大气环流与气候的相互作用

本文研究了冬半球大气环流对夏半球热带气旋及降水的影响。发现近百年北大西洋、北太平洋、北印度洋热带气旋数的变化分别与南大西洋高压、澳洲高压以及南印度洋高压的强弱有明显的关系。南半球澳洲附近、南太平洋、南印度洋的热带气旋数的变化与北半球亚洲大陆的冷空气活动有密切的联系。 冬半球的环流对夏半球降水的影响也很显著。我国旱涝与澳洲高压强度相关密切,而南半球印尼及澳洲附近的降水则与北半球西伯利亚高压的强度和位置的变化有较密切的联系。 在两个半球的相互作用中,冬半球经常处于主动的地位,而夏半球的气候则深受其影响。并且在东亚到澳洲一带这种两个半球间的作用最为活跃。     

Response of the tropical Indian Ocean SST to decay phase of La Niña and associated processes

Delayed impact of El Niño on Tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) Sea Surface Temperature (SST) variations and associated physical mechanisms are well documented by several studies. However, TIO SST evolution during the decay phase of La Niña and related processes are not adequately addressed before. Strong cooling associated with La Niña decay over the TIO could influence climate over the Indian Oceanic rim including Indian summer monsoon circulation and remotely northwest Pacific circulation. Thus understanding the TIO basin-wide cooling and related physical mechanisms during decaying La Niña years is important. Composite analyses revealed that negative SST anomalies allied to La Niña gradually dissipate from its mature phase (winter) till subsequent summer in central and eastern Pacific. In contrast, magnitude of negative SST anomalies in TIO, induced by La Niña, starts increasing from winter and attains their peak values in early summer. It is found that variations in heat flux play an important role in SST cooling over the central and eastern equatorial Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and part of Arabian Sea from late winter to early summer during the decay phase of La Niña. Ocean dynamical processes are mainly responsible for the evolution of southern TIO SST cooling. Strong signals of westward propagating upwelling Rossby waves between 10°S to 20°S are noted throughout (the decaying phase of La Niña) spring and summer. Anomalous cyclonic wind stress curl to the south of the equator is responsible for triggering upwelling Rossby waves over the southeastern TIO. Further, upwelling Rossby waves are also apparent in the Arabian Sea from spring to summer and partly contributing to the SST cooling. Heat budget analysis reveals that negative SST/MLT (mixed layer temperature) anomalies over the Arabian Sea are mostly controlled by heat flux from winter to spring and vertical advection plays an important role during early summer. Vertical and horizontal advection terms primarily contribute to the SST cooling anomalies over southern TIO and the Bay of Bengal cooling is primarily dominated by heat flux. Further we have discussed influence of TIO cooling on local rainfall variations.