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In this article, I discuss the links between the variation of the monsoon and the variation of convection over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, on subseasonal scales of a few days and on an interannual scale. The relationship of the variation of the convection over the oceans to the sea surface temperature is elucidated and the implications for the Pacific and Indian Oceans considered. The role played by the El Nino and Southern Oscillation over the Pacific and the Equatorial Indian Ocean Oscillation in determining the year-to-year variation of the monsoon is discussed.
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Sulochana Gadgil is an honorary Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science. Her main research interests are monsoon dynamics, the coupling of the tropical cloud systems to the oceans. She is interested in evolutionary biology as well and has worked on mathematical models of interactive populations. She enjoys many facets of nature including clouds, birds, butterflies, flowering trees and elephants.
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Gadgil, S. The Indian monsoon. Reson 13, 218–235 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-008-0036-7
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