RS34C:
The Regional Ocean Circulation, Water Exchanges, and Related Studies in the South China Sea II Posters


Session ID#: 27777

Session Description:
The South China Sea (SCS) is situated in the tropical northwestern Pacific, and its wind climate is dominated by the monsoon system. Thus the monsoon forcing is significantly reflected in the multi-timescale variations of the SCS circulation. The SCS western boundary current (hereafter SCSwbc) is a major part of the SCS circulation and SCS throughflow (one of important branches connecting the Pacific and Indian Oceans), which consists of several strong branches, e.g. the SCS Warm Current and the Vietnam Coastal Current et al. Besides the local wind forcing, the water exchanges through the Luzon Strait, especially the Kuroshio intrusion into the SCS also have important contributions to the SCSwbc. However, due to the limited observation and model resolution, the SCSwbc structure, variability and dynamic processes are yet to be well understood. In this session, studies on but not limited to the regional ocean circulations (SCS throughflow, monsoonal ocean circulations), eddy-SCSwbc interactions, cross-continental shelf exchanges, ocean heat/salt transports, as well as relevant biogeochemical processes are welcomed.
Primary Chair:  Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China; South China Sea Institute of Oceanology (SCSIO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Co-chairs:  Arnold L Gordon, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Paola M Rizzoli, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Jun Wei, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R.China., China, China
Moderators:  Arnold L Gordon, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Paola M Rizzoli, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Dongxiao Wang, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Jun Wei, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P.R.China., China, China
Index Terms:

4504 Air/sea interactions [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4520 Eddies and mesoscale processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PO - Physical Oceanography: Other

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Long-term marine climate change projections in the southern South China Sea and the Malacca Strait (305899)
Yunfang Sun1, Elfatih A B Eltahir1 and Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli2, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)MIT, MA, United States
Eddy induced cross-shelf transport in the northern South China Sea (307936)
NA LIU, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Huijie Xue, SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Pronounced freshening of the South China Sea water caused by weakened Kuroshio intrusion since the early 1990s (310088)
Feng Nan1, Fei Yu2, Huijie Xue3, Lili Zeng3, Dongxiao Wang4, Shilun Yang5 and Kim-Cuong Nguyen6, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Qingdao, China, (3)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)Chinese Acad Sci, Guangzhou, China, (5)East China Normal University, China, (6)Department of Marine Science and Technology, University of Science, Hanoi, Vietnam, Vietnam
Spatio-temperal Variation of Winter Phytoplankton Blooms northwest of Luzon Island (315369)
Hui Gao, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China and Hui Zhao, Guangdong Ocean University, ZhanJiang, China
A strong summer phytoplankton bloom southeast of Vietnam in 2007, an El-Nino transition year (315376)
Jian Zhao, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China and Hui Zhao, Guangdong Ocean University, ZhanJiang, China
Decadal variation and trends in subsurface salinityfrom 1960 to 2012 in the northern South China Sea (326301)
Lili Zeng1, Dongxiao Wang2, Peng Xiu3, Yeqiang Shu4, Qiang Wang4 and Jinglong Yao5, (1)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (2)Chinese Acad Sci, Guangzhou, China, (3)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (4)South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (5)Chinese academy of sciences, South China Sea Institude of Oceanology, Guangzhou, China
A peculiar lens-shaped structure observed in the South China Sea (326365)
Jianyu Hu1, Hongyang Lin2, Zhiyu Liu1, Igor Belkin3, Zhenyu Sun4 and Jia Zhu5, (1)Xiamen University, State Key Lab of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China, (2)Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, (3)University of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay, Narragansett, RI, United States, (4)Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen, China, (5)Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China

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