Session2: Ocean-atmosphere processes in the Indo-Pacific convergent area

Conveners: Dongliang Yuan, Ning Zhao, Lei Zhou, Mingting Li

Session description:
The climate systems over the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans interact with each other through the atmospheric bridge, a.k.a. the Walker Circulation, and the oceanic channel, a.k.a. the Indonesian Throughflow. The global climate variability is greatly influenced by the interactions over the Indo-Pacific convergent area. Over the past decade or so, a lot of observations have been made in this area. In this session, observational studies of the ocean circulation and climate variabilities in the western Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans, theoretical and modeling studies of the tropical-extratropical and inter-basin interactions through the western boundary currents and the Indonesian Throughflow, and studies of their effects on the variability and predictability of ENSO, decadal oscillation, warm pool, Asian monsoon, and typhoons are presented.