Dear Colleagues,
We would like to bring your attention to an exciting session on tropical Indo-Pacific
warm pool variability at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting taking place 21-26 February
2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Abstracts are due Wednesday, 23 September 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT
*Session Title:* Variability of ocean circulation in the tropical Indo-Pacific warm pool
and its climatic and environmental impact
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.
We hope to see you in New Orleans!!
Best regards,
Dongliang Yuan (Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China)
Janet Sprintall (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
Christophe Maes (Institute for Research and Development, France)
Fang Wang (Institute of Oceanology, CAS, China)