A34B:
Interactions between the Kuroshio and Asian Marginal Seas Posters


Session ID#: 9273

Session Description:
The Kuroshio is a major western boundary current in the North Pacific, carrying tremendous amount of water mass, heat, and salt from low to mid latitudes and thus affecting physical and biogeochemical properties along its route. Asian marginal seas, such as the South China Sea, the East China Sea, and the Japan-East Sea along the northwest rim of the Kuroshio, have shown distinct dynamic connections to the variability of the Kuroshio. The exchanges between the Kuroshio and marginal seas can affect both the dynamical structures in the marginal seas and the behavior of the Kuroshio, which could also be coupled with mesoscale eddies, local forcing, shelf processes, etc. With increased efforts in development of in-situ monitoring, remote sensing and high-resolution numerical models, our understanding of the impact of Kuroshio has significantly advanced in recent years. This session calls for presentations featuring new results on the interactions between the Kuroshio and Asian marginal seas. Presentations that address interactions between other boundary currents (e.g., the Mindanao and Oyashio currents) and Asian marginal seas, the open Pacific Ocean, and the atmosphere, are also invited.
Primary Chair:  Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Chairs:  Louis St Laurent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Lili Zeng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Moderators:  Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Louis St Laurent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Insti, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Lili Zeng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • ME - Marine Ecosystems
  • OD - Ocean Observing and Data Management
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate
  • PO - Physical Oceanography/Ocean Circulation

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Toward a Mesoscale Hydrological and Marine Meteorological Observation Network in the South China Sea (86874)
Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
Sea surface cooling in the Northern South China Sea observed using Chinese Sea-wing Underwater Glider measurements (87328)
Chunhua Qiu1, Huabin Mao2 and Jiaxue Wu1, (1)Sun Yat-sen Univeristy, School of Marine Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)SCSIO, CAS, Guangzhou, China
 
Impact of isopycnal transport of nitrate along the Kuroshio on the high productivity in the Kuroshio-Oyashio interfrontal zone (Invited) (87893)
Kosei Komatsu1,2, Yutaka Hiroe3, Ichiro Yasuda2 and Masachika Masujima4, (1)Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (2)Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, (3)National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Yokohama, Japan, (4)National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Fisheries Research Agency, Yokohama, Japan
 
Freshening in the South China Sea during 2012 revealed by Aquarius and in situ data (87938)
Lili Zeng1, W. Timothy Liu2, Huijie Xue3, Peng Xiu4 and Dongxiao Wang4, (1)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
Rapid freshening of the upper ocean in the South China Sea since the early 1990s (87943)
Feng Nan1, Fei Yu2, Huijie Xue3, Lili Zeng4 and Dongxiao Wang4, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Qingdao, China, (3)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (4)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
Quasi-biennial Oscillation of the Kuroshio intrusion at Luzon Strait (88119)
Zheng Wang and Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
 
Glider observations of the Mindanao Current: Geostrophic velocity, transport and thermohaline structure (88292)
Martha Schonau and Daniel L Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
The current system east of the Ryukyu Islands as revealed by a global ocean reanalysis (90079)
Prasad G Thoppil, Naval Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, E. Joseph Metzger, Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States, Harley E Hurlburt, Center for Ocean Atmosphere Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Ole Martin Smedstad, Vencore, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States and Hiroshi Ichikawa, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan
 
Features and interannual variability of the South China Sea western boundary current from 1992 to 2011 (90641)
Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, Qi Quan, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Huiling Qin, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou,, China, Xuezhi Zeng, South China Sea Marine Prediction Center, Guangzhou, China and Shiqiu Peng, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
Observations of turbulent energy dissipation rate in the upper ocean of the central South China Sea (90698)
Guiying Chen, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou city, China
 
Turbulence and Biological Productivity at Dongsha Reef in the S. China Sea. (91925)
Louis St Laurent, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Seasonal Variation of the Taiwan Warm Current Water and Its underlying Mechanism (93602)
Jifeng Qi, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Science, Qingdao, China and Baoshu Yin, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
 
The subduction and propagation of subsurface salinity anomalies in the northwestern Pacific (Invited) (86881)
Youfang Yan1, Eric P. Chassignet2 and Yiquan Qi1, (1)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, China, (2)Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
 
Observations of Water Mass Mixing in the Luzon Strait (87345)
Huabin Mao, Zongxun Sun and Xianpeng Li, SCSIO, CAS, Guangzhou, China
 
Westward Intensification In Marginal Seas (88537)
Gengxin Chen, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States
 
Baroclinic Instability and Energy Transfer underlying the Kuroshio eddy shedding process in Luzon Strait (88657)
Jiuyou Lu, Ocean University of China, China
 
Enhanced organic carbon fluxes at mesoscale eddies near the Kuroshio (88981)
Chin-chang Hung and Yung-Yen Shih, NSYSU National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
 
Interannual variability of circulation in the northern South China Sea (89195)
Na Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Climate Change Research Center, Beijing, China, Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
 
Nutrient flux and transport in the upper ocean of the Kuroshio east of Taiwan (89358)
Chung-Chi Chen, NTNU National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan and Sen Jan, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Regulation of South China Sea Throughflow by Pressure difference due to Thermohaline and Wind-driven circulations (89385)
Huiling Qin, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), Chinese Academy of Science, Guangzhou,, China, Rui Xin Huang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Department of Physical Oceanography,, MA, United States, Huijie Xue, University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States and Weiqiang Wang, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangzhou 510301, China
 
Observed inter-annual variability of volume transport in the transect of 120°E in the northeast of South China Sea (90113)
Huaqian Hou1, Qiang Xie2, Gengxin Chen3, Yunkai He1,4, Yeqiang Shu5, Tilak Priyadarshana6, Jinglong Yao1,4 and Dongxiao Wang1,4, (1)Chinese academy of sciences, South China Sea Institude of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China, (2)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (3)State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (4)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (5)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (6)Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences & Technology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka
 
Evolution of the Kuroshio in the East China Sea: 2010-2015 (92233)
Dara D H Cadden, Naval Oceanographic Office, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
Responses of the Kuroshio to Typhoons Observed by Moored Instruments off Taiwan (93446)
Sen Jan1, Magdalena Andres2, Cheng-Ju Tsai1 and Ming-Huei Chang1, (1)NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Relationship between upper ocean heat content in the Japan Sea and volume transport through the Tsushima Strait (93682)
Nariaki Hirose1, Norihisa Usui2, Yusuke Tanaka3, Tsuyoshi Wakamatsu3, Yoichi Ishikawa3, Takahiro Toyoda4, Yosuke Fujii5, Shiro Nishikawa3, Hiromichi Igarashi3, Haruka Nishikawa3, Yasushi Takatsuki6, Tsurane Kuragano7 and Masafumi Kamachi1, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)Meteorological Research Institute, Oceanography and Geochemistry Research Department, Ibaraki, Japan, (3)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (4)Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (5)Meteorological Research Institute, Oceanography and Geochemistry Research Department, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, (6)Meteorological Research Institute, Climate Research Department, Tsukuba, Japan, (7)Meteorological Research Institute, Oceanography and Geochemistry Research Department, Tsukuba, Japan