| Indian Ocean Currents - Part4 (1178 words) |
 | The dominant feature of the observed southern hemisphere circulation in the Indian Ocean is the subtropical cyclonic (clockwise) gyre comprised of the westward flowing South Equatorial Current (SEC) at 12°S to the south, the South Equatorial Countercurrent to the north, and the East African Coastal Current in the west. |
| Seasonal variability in the latitude range of the SEC is generated to the east of 100°E by the annual cycle in the wind stress curl and propagates westward as a Rossby wave at approximately 0.1 m.s-1 (Woodberry et al. |
| The East Madagascar Current is the southern branch of the South Equatorial Current which seperates as it reaches the eastern coast of Madagascar (Tomczak and Godfrey, 1994). |
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