OS41A:
Physical Oceanography, Geodynamics, and Ecological Environment of the Western Pacific I


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Session ID#: 57577

Session Description:
The Western Pacific Ocean is unique in terms of physical oceanography, geodynamics, and ecological environments. Previous studies on the Western Pacific are isolated within individual communities. For example, oceanographic studies have typically focused on the upper ocean. Deep and abyssal layers are set apart from upper counterparts. Geodynamics are focused on the initiation and development of subduction system. Given the enormous volume and storage of heat and carbon, the long residence time makes the Pacific important in the studies of global overturning circulations and climate change. The deep circulation plays an important role in connecting subducting system and benthic communities, and transporting chemical constituents. Within different basins with narrow connecting passages, bioconnectivity is restricted and deep-water organisms may evolve to be distinct from their adjacent counterparts. This session provides an opportunity for different research communities to share results of recent physical oceanographic, geodynamics, and ecological studies of the Western Pacific.
Primary Convener:  Fan Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China
Convener:  Jianing Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison:  Kuidong Xu, Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Chairs:  Fan Wang1, Weidong Sun1 and Kuidong Xu2, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China(2)Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
OSPA Liaison:  Kuidong Xu, Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Index Terms:

1223 Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4273 Physical and biogeochemical interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

BGC-Argo Observations and Physical-Biogeochemical Modeling in Western Pacific Ocean (414660)
Fei Chai, Second Institute of Oceanography, State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Hangzhou, China and Peng Xiu, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Seismic experiments investigating plate dynamics and fluid interaction of the Challenger Deep region in Southern Mariana Trench (417602)
Jian Lin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States; Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Jinlong Sun, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Min Xu, CAS Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China, Xin Zeng, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou, China and Zhiyuan Zhou, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
The South China Sea: a backarc basin of the Neo-Tethys Ocean (428495)
Weidong Sun1,2, Chiou-ting Lin3, Li-peng Zhang3, Ren-qiang Liao3 and Cong-ying Li3, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China, (3)Center of Deep Sea Research, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Gas hydrates associated with hydrothermal vents (400340)
Xin Zhang1, Zengfeng Du1, Shichuan Xi2, Lianfu Li1, Zhendong Luan1, Bing Wang1, Lei Cao1, Chao Lian1 and Jun Yan1, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)LaoShan Laboratory, Qingdao, China
Dynamics of Deep Eastern Boundary Currents (370459)
Xiaoting Yang, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Eli Tziperman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Cambridge, United States and Kevin Speer, Florida State University, Department of Scientific Computing (DSC), Tallahassee, United States
Ocean current monitoring in a tropical trench (431607)
Hongzhou Xu1, Jiwei Tian2 and Qiang Xie1, (1)Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China, (2)Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System (FDOMES) and Physical Oceanography Laboratory, Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Information of Hainan Province/Sanya Oceanographic Institution, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Vertical Structure and Evolution of an Anticyclonic Eddy in the South China Sea (370725)
Yuying Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States; Tongji University, Shanghai, China and Glenn Flierl, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States

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