PL44B:
Deep and Abyssal Ocean Circulations in the Pacific: Characterization, Dynamics, and Representation I Posters


Session ID#: 28086

Session Description:
Deep and abyssal ocean circulations play an important role in the global ocean circulation system, the distribution of oxygen and nutrients, and long-term global climate variability. However, measurements in the deep layers are still sparse, and hence there are large gaps in our knowledge of deep and abyssal ocean currents. Studies over a wide range of scopes are thus valuable to expanding our understanding. Such studies include, but are not limited to, (1) revealing the structure, characteristics, and variability of deep and abyssal ocean currents, (2) illustrating the influence and constraint of ocean bottom topography on the deep ocean currents, (3) studying on the Pacific deep western boundary current, rotating hydraulics, and dense overflows, (4) studying the underlying physics of deep ocean circulations which facilitate our modeling of deep ocean as well as our interpretation of observational data, and (5) discussing the influence and response of deep ocean currents to the climate change. There is no clear boundary exist between these topics, instead more interaction between them is more than needed and will certainly be beneficial to all. This session welcomes abstracts on observational, theoretical, laboratory, and modeling studies of processes relevant to the Pacific deep and abyssal ocean circulations.
Primary Chair:  Fan Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Co-chairs:  Lawrence J Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Gunnar Voet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Jianing Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Moderators:  Gunnar Voet, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States, Lawrence J Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, United States, Fan Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China and Jianing Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Student Paper Review Liaison:  Jianing Wang, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4262 Ocean observing systems [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
4532 General circulation [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
9355 Pacific Ocean [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Cross-Topics:
  • IS - Ocean Observatories, Instrumentation and Sensing Technologies
  • OM - Ocean Modeling

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The vertical structure and variability of the western boundary currents east of the Philippines: case study from in-situ observations from December 2010 to August 2014 (304605)
Fujun Wang, Institute of Oceanology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Long-term change and variation of the intermediate water in the Philippine Sea (305254)
Nan Zang and Fan Wang, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Modelling Deep Ocean Circulation in the Panama Basin Driven by Geothermal Heating (306571)
Jowan Menhinick Barnes1,2, Alex Megann3, Miguel Angel Morales Maqueda4 and Jeff Polton1, (1)National Oceanography Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (2)Newcastle University, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom, (3)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (4)Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Deep Pacific Circulation: new insights on pathways through the Solomon Sea  (307841)
Alexandre S Ganachaud, Observatory Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France, Cyril Emmanuel Germineaud, CNRS/IGE, Grenoble, France, Sophie E Cravatte, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UT), Nouméa, New Caledonia, Janet Sprintall, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Marion S Alberty, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Gerard Eldin, IRD/LEGOS, Toulouse, France
Vertical structure and possible forcing of the observed interannual variability of the Mindanao Current and Undercurrent (308155)
Shijian Hu1, Dunxin Hu2 and Cong Guan1, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China
Mooring observations of equatorial western Pacific currents during the onset of the 2015 El Nino event (308235)
Cong Guan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
Mesoscale variability of deep currents in the Northwest Pacific Basin (309995)
Masatoshi Miyamoto1, Eitarou Oka1, Daigo Yanagimoto2, Shinzou Fujio3, Genta Mizuta4, Shiro Imawaki5, Masao Kurogi6, Hiroyasu Hasumi7 and Maki Nagasawa8, (1)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (2)Atmos. & Ocean Res. Institute, Kashiwa, Japan, (3)Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (4)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (5)Kyusyu University, Japan, (6)JAMSTEC, Yokohama City, Japan, (7)AORI, Univ. of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan, (8)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
Mechanism of Seasonal Eddy Kinetic Energy Variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean (310075)
Minyang Wang, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Tropical Oceanography, Guangzhou, China, Yan DU, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Bo Qiu, Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, United States, Xuhua Cheng, College of Oceanography, Hohai University, Nanjing, China, Yiyong Luo, Ocean University of China, Physical Oceanography Laboratory/CIMST, Qingdao, China, Xiao Chen, Hohai University, Nanjing, China and Ming Feng, CSIRO, Environment, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
Convective Instability-induced Bottom Mixing Using Large Eddy Simulation (314295)
Xiaoqian Gao, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, Changming Dong, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Oceanic Modeling and Observation Laboratory, Nanjing, China, Junhong Liang, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Jingsong Yang, Second Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Hangzhou, China, Guojing Li, South China Sea institute of oceanology chinese academy of sciences, China, Dongxiao Wang, Sun Yet-sen University, Guangzhou, China and James C McWilliams, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Significant Cooling in the Deep Philippine Sea during the recent Global Warming Hiatus (315418)
Shuwen Tan, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qungdao, China, Hui Zhou, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China and Dongliang Yuan, Institute of Oceanography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Long-range Radiation and Dissipation Processes of M2 Internal Tides in the Philippine Sea (315932)
Yang Wang1, Zhenhua Xu1 and Baoshu Yin2, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao, China
The North Equatorial Countercurrent Observed by Subsurface Moorings in the Western Pacific (302997)
Lina Song1, Yuanlong Li2, Fan Wang3 and Jianing Wang1, (1)Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Institute of Oceanology, Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Qingdao, China
The Deep Eastern Boundary Current in Southeastern Pacific Ocean (325815)
Xiaoting Yang, University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Eli Tziperman, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA., Cambridge, United States
Subthermocline, Intermediate and Deep Zonal Currents in the Tropical Pacific Ocean: Paths and Vertical Structure (311909)
Sophie E Cravatte, IRD Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, Elodie Kestenare, Laboratoire d’Etudes Géophysiques et d’Océanographie Spatiale, LEGOS – UMR 5566 CNES-CNRS-IRD-UPS, Toulouse, France, Frederic Marin, LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, Pierre Dutrieux, Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, Eric Firing, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Oceanography, Honolulu, HI, United States and Enzo Gronchi, LEGOS/OMP, Toulouse, France

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