| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Mechanisms and Consequences of Climate Change – |
| Main Convener | Dr. Anne Mueller (Brisbane, Australia, Germany) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Ludvig Löwenmark (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Combined paleoceanographic and paleoclimate research efforts are directed at securing a quantitative understanding of natural and human-induced variations of the Earth system in the past. Such understanding is needed in order to make sound predictions of future climate, ecosystems and sustainability. In this session on combined paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, contributions are invited which respond to the challenge of understanding the mechanisms and consequences of climatic changes using oceanic sedimentary and coral records. Thus, papers are welcome which present high quality data documenting the variability of surface and/or deep ocean physical and chemical characteristics during key periods of recent earth history in the Asia-Oceania region. Paleoceanography data derived from proxies found in deep-sea sediments including trace metal and isotopic composition of fossil plankton, species composition, and lithology is of interest to this session. We also look forward to presentations of new data of the more recent paleoceanography from proxies measured in shallow-water corals. Studies addressing climatic mechanisms and dealing with Monsoon, ENSO, Indian Ocean climate modes, and interaction of these modes are particularly invited. Ocean-atmosphere interaction between tropical and extratropical regions is also a key topic of this session. Furthermore, papers quantifying climate and chemical variability of the ocean on time scales of oceanic processes, determining its sensitivity to identified internal and external forcings, and determining its role in controlling atmospheric CO2 are also welcome. Of special interest will also be the question of how changes in surface ocean properties in the Asia-Oceania region have controlled the evolution of global heat transfer through the deep and surface-ocean and thereby modified climate. Another part of the session will address how closely continental climate has been linked to ocean surface and deep-water properties in the Asia-Oceania region in the recent earth history. |