PO33C:
Variability of Ocean Circulation in the Tropical Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Its Climatic and Environmental Impact II


Session ID#: 11406

Session Description:
The warm pool in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans and its associated ocean-atmosphere interactions play a vital role in the variability of regional and global climate. Strong western boundary currents (WBCs) and Indonesian Throughflow modulate the heat, mass and freshwater budgets of the warm pool, which is of great importance to the global climate predictability.  Among them, ENSO and Indian Ocean Dipole are the strongest interannual climate modes that interact over and through the Indonesian seas.  The tropical and extra-tropical exchange through the WBCs is believed to influence the decadal and longer time-scale variability of the tropical oceans.  A number of field experiments and modeling efforts have been designed and implemented to understand the dynamics of the processes that give rise to the variability and predictability of the Indo-Pacific ocean circulation and climate.  This session seeks contributions with topics including oceanic circulation variability in the western tropical Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, interactions with the extra-tropics, the Indonesian Throughflow, and air-sea interactions associated with the warm pool. Contributions are also encouraged about the impact of the Indo-Pacific oceans on the variability and predictability of Asian monsoon, typhoons, and multi-disciplinary studies at times scales from diurnal, intra-seasonal, interannual, to decadal.
Primary Chair:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China
Chairs:  Janet Sprintall, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, Christophe Maes, Université Brest, Ifremer, CNRS, IRD, Laboratoire d ’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), IUEM, Brest, France, Brest, France and Fan Wang, Institute of Oceanology, CAS, Qingdao, China
Moderators:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Christophe Maes, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, France
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China and Weiqing Han, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

1620 Climate dynamics [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4522 ENSO [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Air-sea Interactions and Upper Ocean Processes
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • TE - Tropical and Equatorial Environments

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

PO33C-01
Recent Progress in the Study of Ocean Circulation and Warm Pool in the Western Pacific (93797)
Dunxin Hu, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves (KLOCAW), Qingdao, China
PO33C-02
Southwest Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate Experiment (SPICE) scientific advances and future west pacific coordination (89393)
Alexandre S Ganachaud, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, Janet Sprintall, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Xiaopei Lin, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, Kentaro Ando, jamstec, oceanography, tokyo, Japan and SPICE contributors
PO33C-04
Circulation and water mass transformations in the southwest Pacific Low Latitude Western Boundary Currents (88208)
Cyril Germineaud1,2, Alexandre S Ganachaud2, Janet Sprintall3 and Sophie E Cravatte2,4, (1)University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (2)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France
PO33C-05
Transport through the Solomon Sea observed by Moorings and Inverted Echo Sounder with Bottom Pressures (92310)
Arachaporn Anutaliya, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Uwe Send, University of California, San Diego
PO33C-06
Variability of the Equatorial Currents in the Western Pacific: Two Mooring Observations at 2°N and 4.7°N, 140°E (87798)
Jianing Wang1, Fan Wang1 and Qiang Ma2, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves (KLOCAW), Qingdao, China
PO33C-07
Long-term variabilities of meridional geostrophic volumn transport in North Pacific Ocean (91271)
Hui Zhou1, Dongliang Yuan1 and William K Dewar2, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
PO33C-08
Decadal trends of the upper ocean salinity in the tropical Indo-Pacific since mid-1990s (89608)
Yan DU, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Yuhong Zhang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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