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Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis is applied to daily outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) data to identify the major modes of oscillation over the summer monsoon region (7·5° N-32·5° N, 62·5° E-142·5° E) for two summers 1975 and 1977, each consisting of 120 days from 18 May through 14 September. Power spectrum analysis of time-dependent coefficients of the dominant eigenvectors exhibit spectral peaks in the long (<15 days) and short (4–8 days) period ranges. A detailed study is confined to 4–8 day filtered OLR perturbations. Standard deviation patterns of filtered OLR show large intraseasonal variability in the activity of monsoon disturbances over the Bay of Bengal. Lag-correlations reveal systematic westward movement of 4–8 day OLR perturbations from the Western Pacific to the Bay of Bengal in both summers.
EOF analysis is also applied to 4–8 day filtered OLR data to further investigate possible teleconnections in disturbance activity between the Western Pacific and the Bay of Bengal. A compositing technique is utilized to detail the structural features (zonal wavelength and phase speed) of 4–8 day OLR disturbances. Composite diagrams for summer 1975 showed that OLR disturbances which originated near northeastern Burma moved west ward with phase speed (wavelength) of about 3–4° per day (≈20–25° longitude) reaching maximum intensity in the Bay of Bengal. In summer 1977, the disturbance activity in the Bay of Bengal was associated with OLR perturbations which originated in the Western Pacific and moved westward across the South China Sea and Indochina with phase speed (wavelength) of above 8° per day (40° longitude).
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Muthuvel, C. Short-period oscillations in outgoing longwave radiation over the summer monsoon region. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Earth Planet Sci.) 90, 125–140 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02880257
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