| Session Details | |
| Section | OS - Ocean Sciences |
| Session Title | Ocean Salinity Variability and Its Impact on Weather, Climate and Biogeochemistry |
| Main Convener | Dr. Hailong Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Nathalie Goodkin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Prof. Sung-Hyun Nam (Seoul National University, Korea, South) Dr. Xidong Wang (Hohai University, China) |
| Session Description | This session highlights research investigating ocean salinity as an important driver of ocean circulation and upper ocean mixing and a key indicator of the global water cycle. With a growing database of satellite and in situ observations, progress has been made toward characterizing spatial variations and intraseasonal to interannual changes in salinity. However, challenges remain, particularly for quantifying long-term fluctuations and their climate impacts. This session seeks to bring together recent efforts aimed at better understanding salinity variability and its links to weather/climate and biogeochemical phenomena. Contributions are invited on all aspects of salinity variations from the perspectives of observations, paleo-proxies and numerical models, including phenomena such as the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO), El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), monsoons, and the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC). |