Session1: Oceanic multiscale motions and their impacts on climate variability

Conveners: Bo Qiu, Chunhua Qiu, Xueming Zhu, Qinbiao Ni, Jae-Hun Park

Session description:
The oceanic motions in the Pacific-Asian marginal seas and adjacent regions include a broad range of spatiotemporal scales spanning through large-scale currents, mesoscale eddies to small-scale dissipative processes. These motions and the interactions among them have significant influence not only on regional ocean dynamics but also on global climate variability. This session aims at the recent progress in our understanding of the coupling mechanism and energy transfer among these multiscale oceanic processes, as well as their environmental and climatic impacts. Observational, theoretical and modeling studies on relevant topics such as western boundary currents, subtropical mode waters, (sub)mesoscale processes, internal waves, turbulent mixing, air-sea interaction and climate predictability, are all welcome.