It is shown that many of the observed features of the cross-equatorial low-level jet of the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean and Somalia can be numerically simulated by including the east African and Madagascar mountains, the beta effect, and a lateral forcing from the east around 75 degree E. The numerical model presented here is a one-level primitive equation model with a detailed bottom topography and a one-degree latitude grid size. When all the three above-mentioned parameter are included, features such as strong winds just downstream from the Madagascar mountains, an equatorial relative speed minimum, an intense jet off the Somali coast and a split of the jet over the northern Arabian Sea are simulated from an initial state of rest.
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Krishnamurti, T. N., Molinari, J., & Pan, H. L. (1976). NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE SOMALI JET. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 33(12), 2350–2362. https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0469(1976)033<2350:NSOTSJ>2.0.CO;2
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