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Indian Ocean Basin mode
The Indian Ocean Basin mode (IOB) is the dominant pattern of year-to-year sea surface temperature variability in the tropical Indian Ocean, a basin-wide warming or cooling.
Indian Ocean Dipole
Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD), measured by the Dipole Mode Index, is a sea surface temperature seesaw between the western and eastern tropical Indian Ocean with positive, negative, and neutral phases, discovered by Saji et al. in 1999, affecting East African, Indonesian, and Australian rainfall.