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INDIAN OCEAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The 3rd largest ocean; bounded by Africa on the west, Asia on the north, Australia on the east and merging with the Antarctic Ocean to the south
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)
Meronyms (parts of "Indian Ocean"):
Ceylon (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of India)
Comoro Islands; Iles Comores (three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar)
Madagascar (an island in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa; the 4th largest island in the world)
Maldive Islands; Maldives (a group of about 1,200 small coral islands (about 220 inhabited) in the Indian ocean)
Mauritius (an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean)
Seychelles; Seychelles islands (a group of about 90 islands in the western Indian Ocean to the north of Madagascar)
Antarctic Ocean (the southern waters surrounding Antarctica)
Arabian Sea (a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia)
Bay of Bengal (an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India)
Gulf of Aden (arm of the Indian Ocean at the entrance to the Red Sea)
Mozambique Channel (an arm of the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and southeastern Africa)
Red Sea (a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal)
Timor Sea (an arm of the eastern Indian Ocean between Timor and northern Australia)
Context examples:
Weimerskirch speculated that it could have been affected by a particularly strong El Nino weather event that warmed the southern Indian Ocean in 1997.
(Study: World's Largest King Penguin Colony Declines Sharply, VOA)
Researchers also looked at the effect of the Indian Ocean Dipole, or Indian Niño, and other climate patterns on crops.
(El Niño linked to widespread crop failures, SciDev.Net)
A country in southeastern Asia, comprising the archipelago and islands between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, north of Australia.
(Indonesia, NCI Thesaurus)
The continent and country between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean, south of Asia.
(Australia, NCI Thesaurus)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, south of Africa, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia and south of the Maldives.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
MJO events travel a stretch of 12,000—20,000 kilometres eastwards from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
Besides the MJO life cycle, Taschetto notes that there are many other climate phenomena, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole, which can together affect regional rainfall differently.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
There is now a tendency for the MJO to decrease the early stages duration (reduce its time over the Indian Ocean) and increase its later stage duration (persist longer over the Maritime Continent and western Pacific), says Taschetto.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
The Indo-Pacific warm pool, a region between the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, with ocean temperatures generally warmer than 28 degrees Celsius, has been warming since the 1900s, but during 1981—2018, it expanded at a rate of about 400,000 square kilometres per year — the size of Thailand or Spain, says Roxy Mathew Koll, lead author and climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
