  We have done a statistical analysis of the wind field from the archive of
NCEP/NOAA over the Indian Ocean for the period 1998-2008yy, which is given on a
grid 1x1.25 of latitude-longitude with 3h time-step. Initial analysis includes
mapping the average wind fields <W(x,y,T> and fields of mean density of the
wind-kinetic-energy flux <Ea(x,y,T>, obtained with different periods of time
averaging T, as well as the assessment of 11-year trends in these fields. The
subsequent analysis is concerned with partition of the Indian ocean area into 6
zones, provided by the spatial inhomogeneity of the analyzed wind field. This
analysis includes: a) an assessment of temporal variations for the wind speed
field averaged over the Ocean and the zones and for the field of wind-energy
flux; b) construction of time history series of these fields averaged with
different scales, and estimating frequency spectra of these series; c) finding
the extremes of the wind field (in the zones of Indian Ocean); d) construction
of histograms of the wind field; and e) calculation of the first four
statistical moments for the wind field (in zones and in the whole Ocean). The
results obtained allow us to estimate the stored energy of the wind field in
the Indian Ocean, its climate variability, and distribution of the above
statistical characteristics of wind field in the Indian Ocean.
