PL51A:
Western Pacific and Indonesian Sea Circulation and Its Environmental and Climatic Impacts II


Session ID#: 36814

Session Description:
The western Pacific warm pool is influenced strongly by the western boundary currents of the Pacific Ocean and the Indonesian Throughflow and plays a vital role in the ocean-atmosphere coupled evolution of the tropical oceans. This area has been the focus of recent ocean observations and climate studies aiming to better understand the dynamics and predictability of the variability in the Indo-Pacific ocean circulation and climate. This session seeks contributions on topics including oceanic circulation variability in the western tropical Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, dynamics of the latest ENSO and IOD events, tropical-extratropical interactions, inter-basin interactions, the Indonesian Throughflow, and air-sea interactions associated with the warm pool. Also encouraged are contributions aimed at understanding the impact of the Indo-Pacific oceans on the variability and predictability of Asian, Australian, and African monsoons, typhoons, and multi-disciplinary studies at times scales ranging from diurnal, intra-seasonal, interannual, and decadal to the centennial impacts of global warming.
Primary Chair:  Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Co-chairs:  William S. Kessler, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, Jin-Yi Yu, University of California, irvine, Dept. of Earth System Sciences, Irvine, CA, United States and William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Moderators:  William S. Kessler1, William K Dewar2, Zheng Wang3 and Hui Zhou2, (1)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States(2)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States(3)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Hui Zhou, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Index Terms:

4215 Climate and interannual variability [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4522 ENSO [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
4576 Western boundary currents [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Cross-Topics:
  • AI - Air-Sea Interactions
  • OM - Ocean Modeling
  • PC - Past, Present and Future Climate

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10 years of glider transects across the Solomon Sea low-latitude western boundary current (WBC) (305948)
William S. Kessler1, Russ Davis2, Hristina G Hristova3 and Jeffrey T Sherman2, (1)NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI, United States
Possible role of Indonesian Sea SST in MJO propagation through the Maritime Continent (319811)
Chidong Zhang, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States
Anomalous Relaxations of the Makassar Throughflow during 2014-2017 (325081)
Asmi M Napitu1,2, Arnold L Gordon2, Kandaga Pujiana3,4, Bruce A Huber2, Anna Kuswardani1, Teguh Agustiadi1, Nurman Mbay1 and Agus Setiawan1, (1)Ministry of marine affairs and fisheries of the Republic Indonesia, Agency for Marine and Fisheries R&D, Jakarta, Indonesia, (2)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Bandung Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia
Moored Observations of Equatorward Transport in the Solomon Sea (302373)
Marion S Alberty1, Janet Sprintall1, Sophie E Cravatte2, Alexandre S Ganachaud3, Cyril Emmanuel Germineaud4, Jennifer A MacKinnon1 and Gerard Eldin5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, (3)Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, (4)CNRS/IGE, Grenoble, France, (5)IRD/LEGOS, Toulouse, France
Volume Transport Measurements at the Southern Entrance of the Solomon Sea (322954)
Matthias J Lankhorst1, Arachaporn Anutaliya1, Uwe Send1, Janet Sprintall1, Julie McClean1, William S. Kessler2 and Jannes Koelling1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States
Volume transport in the far western tropical North Pacific: Glider observations of the Mindanao Current and comparisons to a regional numerical State Estimate (314089)
Martha Schonau1, Daniel L Rudnick1, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan1 and Bruce D Cornuelle2, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States

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