| Session Description |
Interactions between the ocean and the atmosphere have long been recognized as a major driving force of oceanic processes. In recent years, it becomes increasingly evident that ocean biogeochemistry, atmospheric processes and global climate are intricately intertwined through these interactions, and they may modulate each other’s behaviors. The Western North Pacific Ocean and its adjacent marginal seas are uniquely situated for examining these linkages. They lie immediately down wind from one of the two largest sources of dusts, namely the Central Asian dust, and the largest source of anthropogenic emission to the atmosphere from a rapidly expanding economy, namely the Chinese economy, of the world. These waters are also frequented by tropical cyclones and typhoons. This session will focus on how atmospheric forcing through the exchanges of momentum, energy and matter across the air-sea interface may affect the biogeochemistry of the oceans, especially as evidenced in the Western North Pacific and its adjacent East Asian marginal seas. |
