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, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, 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, United States
Moderators:  William S. Kessler, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, WA, United States, William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, United States, Zheng Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China and Hui Zhou, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  William K Dewar, Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, 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, Prof. Arnold L Gordon, PhD2, Kandaga Pujiana3,4, Bruce A Huber2, Anna Kuswardani1, Teguh Agustiadi5, 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, (5)Ministry of marine affairs and fisheries of the Republic Indonesia, Institute for Marine Research and Observation (IMRO), Parancak-Bali, Indonesia
Moored Observations of Equatorward Transport in the Solomon Sea (302373)
Marion S Alberty, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Janet Sprintall, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Sophie E Cravatte, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UT), Nouméa, New Caledonia, Alexandre S Ganachaud, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, Cyril Emmanuel Germineaud, CNRS/IGE, Grenoble, France, Jennifer A MacKinnon, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Gerard Eldin, IRD/LEGOS, Toulouse, France
Volume Transport Measurements at the Southern Entrance of the Solomon Sea (322954)
Matthias J Lankhorst1, Arachaporn Anutaliya2, Uwe Send2, Janet Sprintall3, Julie McClean2, William S. Kessler4 and Jannes Koelling5, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)NOAA, Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, United States, (5)University of Washington Seattle, Seattle, WA, 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 Gopalakrishnan2 and Bruce D Cornuelle3, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States

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