The wind field in the western Indian Ocean and the related ocean circulation.

Abstract

Monthly wind stress contoured for the western Indian Ocean clearly shows the SW monsoon from May through September to be considerably stronger than the NE monsoon with a maximum in January. Maps of wind stress curl during the SW monsoon show a large region of negative curl to the NE off the Somali coast, whereas a region of high positive curl occurs off the Arabian coast and in a small band off the Somali east coast north of 5oN.-after Author