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OS1.4 | Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present and future
Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present and future
Convener: Caroline Ummenhofer | Co-conveners: Yan Du, Alejandra Sanchez-FranksECSECS, Peter Sheehan, Saurabh RathoreECSECS
Advances have recently been made in our understanding of the Indian Ocean’s physical, biogeochemical, and ecological characteristics and their variability across a range of timescales, interactions with adjacent ocean basins and surrounding land areas, and its role in regional and global climate. Nonetheless, significant gaps remain in understanding, observing, modeling, and predicting Indian Ocean variability and change across a range of timescales.
This session invites contributions based on observations, modelling, theory, and palaeo proxy reconstructions in the Indian Ocean that focus on recent observed and projected changes in Indian Ocean physical and biogeochemical properties and their impacts on ecological processes, diversity in Indian Ocean modes of variability (e.g., Indian Ocean Dipole, Indian Ocean Basin Mode, Madden-Julian Oscillation), interactions and exchanges between the Indian Ocean and other ocean basins, as well as links between Indian Ocean variability and monsoon systems across a range of timescales. We encourage submissions on weather and climate extremes of societal relevance in the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions, their prediction, as well as the evaluation of climate risks, vulnerability, and resilience. We also welcome contributions that address research on the Indian Ocean making use of novel methodologies such as machine learning.