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The Impact of the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event for Indonesian rainfall has been investigated for the period from 1950 to 2011. Inter-annual change of IOD and ENSO indices are used to investigate their relationship with Indonesian rainfall. By using the wavelet transform method, we found a positive significant correlation between IOD and Indonesian rainfall on the time scale of nearly 2.5–4 years. Furthermore, the positive significant correlation between ENSO (sea surface temperature anomaly at Niño3.4 area indices) and Indonesian rainfall exists for shorter than 2 years and between 5.5 to 6.5-year time scales.
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Our gratitude to the Marine Computation Laboratory, Faculty of Marine Sciences and Fisheries-Udayana University, Bali which supported our research in Collaboration with Yamaguchi University, Japan. Cross wavelet software was provided by A. Grinsted. We thank Kathryn Kealoha Lee of Fulbright awardees in Udayana University for editing the English.
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Hendrawan, I.G., Asai, K., Triwahyuni, A. et al. The interanual rainfall variability in Indonesia corresponding to El Niño Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole. Acta Oceanol. Sin. 38, 57–66 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13131-019-1457-1
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