Warming of the Eurasian Landmass Is Making the Arabian Sea More Productive
- 22 April 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 308 (5721) , 545-547
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1106610
Abstract
The recent trend of declining winter and spring snow cover over Eurasia is causing a land-ocean thermal gradient that is particularly favorable to stronger southwest (summer) monsoon winds. Since 1997, sea surface winds have been strengthening over the western Arabian Sea. This escalation in the intensity of summer monsoon winds, accompanied by enhanced upwelling and an increase of more than 350% in average summertime phytoplankton biomass along the coast and over 300% offshore, raises the possibility that the current warming trend of the Eurasian landmass is making the Arabian Sea more productive.Keywords
This publication has 30 references indexed in Scilit:
- Mechanisms for anomalous warming in the western Indian Ocean during dipole mode eventsJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2004
- Processes controlling interannual variations in wintertime (Northeast Monsoon) primary productivity in the central Arabian SeaDeep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2002
- Geographical differences in seasonality of CZCS-derived phytoplankton pigment in the Arabian Sea for 1978–1986Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2000
- Oceanic processes associated with anomalous events in the Indian Ocean with relevance to 1997–1998Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 2000
- The fate of upwelled waters in the Great Whirl, August 1995Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2000
- The upper-ocean response to monsoonal forcing in the Arabian Sea: seasonal and spatial variabilityDeep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 2000
- The oxygen minimum zone in the Arabian Sea during 1995Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 1999
- EditorialDeep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 1998
- Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for predictionJournal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 1998
- Joint Environment Data Analysis (JEDA) CenterEos, 1988