| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Ocean-atmosphere Variability and Interactions Over the Indo-pacific Monsoon Basins: Research and Technology Development |
| Main Convener | Dr. Kentaro Ando (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Youichi Tanimoto (Hokkaido University, Japan) Dr. Yukio Masumoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Session Description | The Indian Ocean and western Pacific monsoon basins have been recognized to play important roles in regional and global climate systems, material circulations, and their variability, through a wide range of atmospheric and oceanic phenomena with various spatial and temporal scales. These phenomena include, for example, the monsoons, ocean-atmosphere interactions, regional and basin-scale climate modes, and biogeochemical variability. This session seeks contributions with 1) scientific topics such as upper ocean circulations, dynamical processes, air-sea interactions, and biogeochemistry, 2) technological developments for better and effective observations, 3) development of observational and satellite datasets, 4) atmosphere/ocean/coupled modeling efforts for forecast and assimilation, and 5) introduction of new and existing scientific projects - associated with the Indian and western Pacific monsoon basins, including the marginal seas. This session intends to share our knowledge on, and to advance our understanding of, all facets of Indian and western Pacific variability and also to provide a forum for coordinating and exchanging views from various on-going and planned efforts relating to regional/global ocean and climate variations. Cross-sectional discussions are highly welcomed among ocean and climate science, atmospheric and oceanic observing technology, data systems, forecast and assimilation modeling, and newly planned projects. |