A Refined Perspective on Indian Ocean Dipole–Driven Surface Salinity Changes and the Salinity Dipole Index

Kokulathasan Thilaksanth1, Gayan Pathirana1, Kyung-Min Noh2, Aoyun Xue3 and Dongxiao Wang4, (1)University of Ruhuna, Oceanography and Marine Geology, Matara, Sri Lanka, (2)NOAA GFDL, Princeton, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Marine Sciences, Guangzhou, China