2015年5月25日(月) 14:15 〜 16:00 202 (2F)

コンビーナ:*Niklas Schneider(International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa)、野中 正見(独立行政法人海洋研究開発機構アプリケーションラボ)、田口 文明(独立行政法人海洋研究開発機構)、中村 尚(東京大学先端科学技術研究センター)、座長:Niklas Schneider(International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa)、田口 文明(独立行政法人海洋研究開発機構)

The role of ocean salinity in Indo-Pacific climate fluctuations is coming into sharper focus with recent observational campaigns and Argo, newly available observation of surface salinity from space, and the analysis of numerical simulation of the ocean and climate. This session seeks observational, modeling and theoretical contributions investigating the variations of salinity, and their role in climate variations of the Pacific and Indian Ocean on time scales from days to decades. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, barrier layer dynamics, the generation, propagation and fate of density compensated temperature and salinity (spiciness) variability, fluctuations and changes in mode waters, tropical and extra-tropical exchanges, and the response of the coupled ocean atmosphere system to changes of salinity.