Figure 1

The mean value of SST (a), zonal wind speed and wind vectors (b) and cumulative rainfall (c) over the Indian ocean and the Southern ocean for the months of January - February of the year 2013 are shown here. The location of ITCZ band over the Indian Ocean is marked [in yellow] along with the region of high convective rainfall [in red dashed box]. (The figure is generated using open source free software GRaDS available at http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/downloads.php. The map and International boundaries are only indicative and as provided by the software).