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Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences(A) Session Sub Category Complex & General(CG) Session ID A-CG05 Title The role of salinity in Indo-Pacific ocean and climate Short title Role of Salinity in Climate Convener Name Niklas Schneider Affiliation International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa Email nschneid@hawaii.edu Co-convener 1. Name Masami Nonaka Affiliation Application Laboratory, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology Email nona@jamstec.go.jp Co-convener 2. Name Bunmei Taguchi Affiliation JAMSTEC Email bunmei@jamstec.go.jp Co-convener 3. Name Hisashi Nakamura Affiliation Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo Email hisashi@atmos.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp International Symposium 'International Symposium' in addition to Scientific session. Language English Scope The role of ocean salinity in Indo-Pacific climate fluctuations is coming into sharper focus with recent observational campaigns and Argo, newly available observation of surface salinity from space, and the analysis of numerical simulation of the ocean and climate. This session seeks observational, modeling and theoretical contributions investigating the variations of salinity, and their role in climate variations of the Pacific and Indian Ocean on time scales from days to decades. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, barrier layer dynamics, the generation, propagation and fate of density compensated temperature and salinity (spiciness) variability, fluctuations and changes in mode waters, tropical and extra-tropical exchanges, and the response of the coupled ocean atmosphere system to changes of salinity. Type of presentation Oral and Poster presentation Invited papers Stephen Riser (University of Washington, USA) Yan Du (Chinese Academy of Science, China) Humio Mitsudera (Hokkaido University, Japan) Yoshinori Sasaki (Hoikkaido University, Japan) Ryo Furue (JAMSTEC, Japan)