| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Inter-basin Interactions and Tropical Climate |
| Main Convener | Dr. Jing-Jia Luo (Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Australia) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Noel Keenlyside (Geophysical Institute and Bjerknes Centre, University of Bergen, Norway) Ms. Julie Arblaster (CAWCR, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia) Dr. Dietmar Dommenget (Monash University, Australia) Prof. Shang-Ping Xie (University of Hawaii, United States) Prof. Masahiro Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Session Description | Tropical climate has tremendous environmental and socioeconomic impacts over the globe. Understanding and predicting tropical climate has been a long-standing challenge. Much attention has been paid to the dynamics of the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, Indian Ocean and Atlantic climate modes and changes in the Walker and Hadley Circulations. While the influence of the Pacific Ocean on the other two basins is well-established, recent studies have suggested that the Indian Ocean and Atlantic may also play an active role in affecting the Pacific climate via atmospheric and oceanic bridges. Increasing evidence indicates that this inter-basin coupling may play an important role in the tropical climate and its predictability at interannual, decadal and longer time scales. In this session we aim to bring together theoretical, observational and modelling studies and to review and advance our understanding and prediction of tropical climate with a special emphasis on, but not limited to, the interactions between different basins. It is of equal interest to look at how this inter-basin coupling might be modulated by or modulate the tropical climate under global warming. We also invite contributions addressing ocean-atmosphere-land interactions, multi-scale interactions (both in space and in time), climate variation and prediction, as well as past and future climate change in the tropics. |