Seasonal Variability of the Mixed Layer Temperature in the Southwestern Tropical Indian Ocean

The 5°S-10°S band in the Indian Ocean,named recently as Seychelles-Chagos Thermocline Ridge (SCTR),is a region where several phenomena of significant climatic influence build up.It is a generation region for tropical cyclones striking the inhabited islands in the Indian Ocean and the African coast.It was recently shown that it is one of the regions where atmospheric intraseasonal variability (e.g.Madden Julian Oscillation,MJO) is