Gayan Pathirana^1,2, Kyung Min Noh^1,3*, Dong-Geon Lee¹, Huiji Lee¹ and Jong-Seong Kug^1*

¹Division of Environmental Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea.

²Department of Oceanography and Marine Geology, FMST, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka.

³Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

^*Corresponding author. Email: jskug@postech.ac.kr, km.noh109@gmail.com

Keywords: Indian Ocean Dipole, Biophysical Interaction, Phytoplankton