5th International Workshop on
Marine Environmental Change of the South China Sea
Agenda
On-site registration: Dec.2nd.2009
Meeting dates: Dec.3rd -4th .2009
Venue: Caiyun Conference hall, twentyninth floor, Guangzhou Baiyun Hotel
Workshop Program
Thursday, December 3 , 2009
Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speech
Chair: Dongxiao Wang / Peiyuan Qian / Danling Tang
8:30-12:00
8:30-8:40
Welcome Remarks by Dongxiao Wang (SCSIO,CAS,CHINA)
Keynote Speeches
Chairs: Peiyuan Qian and Danling Tang
8:40-9:10
9:10-9:40
9:40-10:20
Guohong Fang（FIO,SOA,China)
South China Sea General Circulation: An Overview
Jianping Gan（Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）
A new ‘myth’ of eastern Guangdong (粤东) upwelling circulation
Break and photo session
10:20-10:50 S. Prasanna Kumar（National Institute of Oceanography, India）
Seasonal cycle and monsoonal influence in the South China Sea and East
China Sea
10:50-11:20 Wenju Cai(CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia)
Is climate change contributing to more frequent consecutive positive Indian
Ocean Dipole events?
11:20-11:50 Chunzai Wang(NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, USA)
Influence of Tropical Cyclones on Seasonal Ocean Circulation in theSouth China Sea
12:00-14:00 Lunch (Buffet, Dining hall on the thirtieth floor—Xiangyun West Restaurant)
(15 minutes for each oral presentation and 5 minutes for Q/A)
Session 1
Chairs: Chunzai Wang and Guihua Wang
14:00-18:30
14:00-14:20 Likun Ai (IAP, CAS, China)
Recent progresses of Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study (MAIRS)
14:20-14:40 Igor Belkin(University of Rhode Island,USA)
The Asian Monsoon and Its Impact on Oceanic Fronts of the South China
Sea: Satellite Perspective
14:40-15:00 Youyu Lu(Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
Intra-seasonal variations coherent with the Madden-Julian Oscillation in
global ocean and atmosphere
15:00-15:20 Jia Wang(NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory)
Winter Arctic Oscillation, Siberian High and East Asian Winter Monsoon
15:20-15:40 Liew Juneng（Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia）
Long Term Changes of Synoptic Circulations Over the Maritime Continent During
Winter Monsoon
15:40-15:50
15:50-16:10
16:10-16:30
Break and Poster Session
Somchai Baimoung（Thai Meteorological Department）
The Meteorological Natural Disasters Warning System of Thailand
Hongbin Liu（Hong Kong University of Science and Technology）
Picoplankton dynamics in the South China Sea
16:30-16:50
Dongxiao Wang (SCSIO.CAS,China)
Performance of the observation network around the Xisha Island in the
northwestern South China Sea
16:50-17:10 Danling Tang( SCSIO.CAS,China)
Remote Sensing of the South China Sea: Marine Ecosystem &
Environment Response to Typhoon in the Northern
17:10-17:30 Qingye Wang(Guangdong Ocean University)
Water exchange of the South China Sea from high-resolution OGCMs
17:30-17:50 Jie Xu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Monsoon-driven Dynamics of Nutrients and Phytoplankton Biomass in the
Northern South China Sea
17:50-18:10 Xiangcheng Yuan (SCSIO.CAS,China)
Bacterial contributions to the variations in oxygen and CO2 in
sub-tropical Hong Kong waters
18:10-18:30 Manabu D. Yamanaka (RIGC/JAMSTEC and DEPS/Kobe University)
Significance of land-sea contrast in the tropical climate: AMY-related studies
and future perspective in the maritime continent region
18:30-20:00
Banquet（Dining hall on the third floor at the hotel—Baiyun Haoyan）
Friday, December 4, 2009
Session 2
8:30-8:50
8:50-9:10
9:10-9:30
9:30-9:50
9:50-10:10
10:10-10:20
10:20-10:40
10:40-11:00
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-12:00
12:00-12:20
Chair:
Wenju Cai and Jianyu Hu
8:30-12:20
Rolf Lueck,(Rockland Scientific International Inc.)
Mixing in the South China Sea induced by Large-Amplitude Internal Waves
Fabian Wolk（Rockland Scientific International Inc）
Tools and Methods to Study Turbulent Mixing in the South China Sea
Guiying Chen( SCSIO.CAS,China)
Observation of Upper-Ocean Dissipation Rate in the Luzon Strait
Eric Pieter Achterberg (University of Southampton)
Dust Inputs To The (SUB-)Tropical North Atlantic Ocean; Infiuence On
Ocean Biogeochemistry
Xiaodong Shang(SCSIO.CAS,China)
Rotary spectral characters of resonant triads in Parametric Subharmonic
Instability
Break and Poster Session
Guihua Wang(Second institute of Oceanography, SOA, Hangzhou)
The different effects on the South China Sea circulation driven by Northwest Pacific
and South China Sea tropical cyclones
Yan Du (SCSIO.CAS,China)
A dynamically consistent view of the current system in the Indonesian
throughflow region
Zhiyu Liu (State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen
University)
Instability of Baroclinic Tidal Flow in a Stratified Fjord
Weidong Zhou (SCSIO.CAS,China)
On outflow passages in the South China Sea
Xiwu Luan（Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences）
Bed form erosion on the northern South China Sea Shelf: evidence of
Kuroshio current intrusion
Lingling Xie(Guangdong Ocean University)
The pathway of the Pacific deep water into the South China Sea through the
Luzon Strait
12:20-14:00 Lunch (Buffet, Dining hall on the thirtieth floor—Xiangyun West Restaurant)
Session 3
Chair:
Yan Du and Igor Belkin
14:00-18:00
14:00-14:20 Peiming Wu（Japan Agence for Marine-Earth Science and Technology）
Characteristics of an intense Tropical Wave Disturbance over the Western
Pacific and Its Impact on the Multiple-day Period of Heavy Rainfall over
Hainan Island in Mid-October 2008
14:20-14:40
14:40-15:00
15:00-15:20
15:20-15:40
15:40-15:50
Zhonghui Liu (The University of Hong Kong)
Plio-Pleistocene SST Changes in Warm Pool Regions
Wen Zhou（City University of Hong Kong.）
Predictability and variability of South China Sea Summer monsoon on
different timescales
Ruixin Huang（Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA）
Connecting Open Ocean Circulation and Coastal Circulation
Jianyu Hu（Xiamen University）
Evolution and feature of two cold eddies in the western South China Sea in
August-September 2007
Break and Poster Session
15:50-16:10 Shiqiu Peng ( SCSIO.CAS,China)
Application of 4D-VAR in Storm Surge Simulation by Correcting the Errors
in the Initial Conditions and Wind Stress
16:10-16:30 Rob Holmes（Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth）
Modelling the Global Coastal Ocean and Predicting the Consequences of
Climate Change on Fish Production
16:30-16:50 Clare Fitzsimmons(Newcastle University)
Socio-ecological Systems: From the Western Indian Ocean to opportunities in
the South China Sea
16:50-17:10 Jinhai He（Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology）
Connection between Tibetan Plateau diabatic heating and Ocean-Atmosphere
interaction over the Joining Area of Asia and Indian-Pacific Ocean on intraseasonal
time scale
17:10-17:30 Wei Zhao (Physical Oceanography Laboratory，Ocean University of China)
Observed Internal Solitary Waves in the South China Sea
17:30-17:50 Shengqi Zhou( SCSIO.CAS,China)
Large Scale Circulation and Plume Structures in Thermal Convection.
17:50-18:00
DISCUSSION AND PHOTO