Detecting Change in the Indonesian Seas

dc.contributor.authorAnsong, J.K.
dc.contributor.authorSprintall, J.
dc.contributor.authorGordon, A.L.
dc.contributor.authorWijffels, S.E.
dc.contributor.authorFeng, M.
dc.contributor.authorHu, S.
dc.contributor.authorKoch-Larrouy, A.
dc.contributor.authorPhillips, H.
dc.contributor.authorNugroho, D.
dc.contributor.authorNapitu, A.
dc.contributor.authorPujiana, K.
dc.contributor.authorSusanto, R.D.
dc.contributor.authorSloyan, B.
dc.contributor.authorPeña-Molino, B.
dc.contributor.authorYuan, D.
dc.contributor.authorRiama, N.F.
dc.contributor.authorSiswanto, S.
dc.contributor.authorKuswardani1, A.
dc.contributor.authorArifin, Z.
dc.contributor.authorWahyudi, A.J.
dc.contributor.authorZhou, H.
dc.contributor.authorNagai, T.
dc.contributor.authorBourdalle-Badié, R.
dc.contributor.authorChanut, J.
dc.contributor.authorLyard, F.
dc.contributor.authorArbic, B.K.
dc.contributor.authorRamdhani, A.
dc.contributor.authorSetiawan, A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-28T10:11:16Z
dc.date.available2019-11-28T10:11:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-04
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractThe Indonesian seas play a fundamental role in the coupled ocean and climate system with the Indonesian Throughflow (ITF) providing the only tropical pathway connecting the global oceans. Pacific warm pool waters passing through the Indonesian seas are cooled and freshened by strong air-sea fluxes and mixing from internal tides to form a unique water mass that can be tracked across the Indian Ocean basin and beyond. The Indonesian seas lie at the climatological center of the atmospheric deep convection associated with the ascending branch of the Walker Circulation. Regional SST variations cause changes in the surface winds that can shift the center of atmospheric deep convection, subsequently altering the precipitation and ocean circulation patterns within the entire Indo-Pacific region. Recent multi-decadal changes in the wind and buoyancy forcing over the tropical Indo-Pacific have directly affected the vertical profile, strength, and the heat and freshwater transports of the ITF. These changes influence the largescale sea level, SST, precipitation and wind patterns. Observing long-term changes in mass, heat and freshwater within the Indonesian seas is central to understanding the variability and predictability of the global coupled climate system. Although substantial progress has been made over the past decade in measuring and modeling the physical and biogeochemical variability within the Indonesian seas, large uncertainties remain. A comprehensive strategy is needed for measuring the temporal and spatial scales of variability that govern the various water mass transport streams of the ITF, its connectionwith the circulation and heat and freshwater inventories and associated air-sea fluxes of the regional and global oceans. This white paper puts forward the design of an observational array using multi-platforms combined with high-resolution models aimed at increasing our quantitative understanding of water mass transformation rates and advection within the Indonesian seas and their impacts on the air-sea climate system.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation under Grant Number OCE- 1736285 and NOAA’s Climate Program Office, Climate Variability and Predictability Program under Award Number NA17OAR4310257. SH was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41776018) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (QYZDBSSW- SYS023). HP acknowledges support from the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Programme. HZ acknowledges support from National Science Foundation under Grant No. 41876009. RS was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. OCE-07-25935; Office of Naval Research Grant No. N00014-08-01-0618 and National Aeronautics and Space Administration Grant No. 80NSSC18K0777. SW, MF, and BS were supported by Center for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), which is a joint initiative between the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (QNLM), CSIRO, University of New South Wales and University of Tasmania.en_US
dc.identifier.otherdoi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00257
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/33890
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers in Marine Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries6;
dc.subjectIndonesian throughflowen_US
dc.subjectobserving systemen_US
dc.subjectintraseasonalen_US
dc.subjectENSOen_US
dc.subjecttransport variabilityen_US
dc.subjectplanetary wavesen_US
dc.titleDetecting Change in the Indonesian Seasen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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