Arabian Sea Mini Warm Pools
- Recently, scientists highlighted the role of the Arabian Sea Mini Warm Pool (MWP) in stabilizing the Indian Summer Monsoon after disruptions caused by El Niño.
- Arabian Sea Mini Warm Pools are small, high-temperature patches of water in the southeastern Arabian Sea near the Kerala coast that form every April–May and influence local wind and rainfall patterns.
- The formation and intensity of the MWP are influenced by the Indian Ocean Capacitor Effect, a delayed response of the Indian Ocean to El Niño in the Pacific, which generates anomalous easterly winds that weaken surface cooling and strengthen the warm pool.
- MWPs act as a natural ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content
Already a Member? Login here
Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Ecology & Environment
- 1 Armenia Unveils COP17 Logo Featuring Endemic Blue Butterfly
- 2 India Adds Siliserh Lake and Kopra Reservoir to Ramsar List
- 3 Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks Further in 2025
- 4 Gujarat: Tiger State Status
- 5 Freshwater Sponges: Nature’s Biofilters Against Toxic Metal Pollution
- 6 India’s Rarest Pheasant Faces an Uncertain Future
- 7 Invasive Species Expansion in India
- 8 Samudra Pratap: India’s First Indigenous Pollution Control Vessel
- 9 India Leads Global Push on Wildfire Management at UNEA-7
- 10 India’s Green Maritime Odyssey
