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The Indo-Pacific Ocean has the world's most typical trench arc basin system and seabed complex topographic structure, which gives birth to the highest global temperature surface water: The Indo-Pacific warm pool, which forms the most important atmospheric deep convection system in the world, provides a natural laboratory for revealing the key processes of ocean-land-atmosphere multi-system interaction, ocean dynamic environment observation and evolution, and global change.
The Indo-Pacific warm pool is the largest warm pool in the world, bringing together the famous surface current systems such as the Kuroshio, the Indonesian Penetrating current, and the Equatorial current system. Although the surface current has been understood to some extent, the subsurface and deep current are still lacking in observation and research. The Walker and Hadley circulation, formed by the heating of warm water, represent the largest and most extensive atmospheric circulation system in the world. Uncovering the interplay between these factors and their impact on the global and Marine environment across different time scales remains a major challenge.
Since the Cenozoic, the world has experienced active tectonic movements, especially the collision of the Eurasian plate, the formation of the Southeast Asian trench arc basin system and the complex submarine terrain system, which have greatly changed the evolution process of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment. Under this pattern, the marine environment may also have experienced significant periodic fluctuations in response to cyclical changes in Earth's climate and sea level since the late Quaternary.
Over the past few decades, scholars around the world have conducted multifaceted research on the observation and reconstruction of modern and past ocean dynamic environments in the Indo-Pacific. In recent years, multidisciplinary research teams have used new technologies and methods to conduct large-scale comprehensive scientific investigations in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, which has brought exciting new prospects. How to use the new findings of modern marine research to analyse the evolution information of the past marine environment, and then how to use the understanding of the evolution of the past marine environment to serve the prediction of future environmental change is an important scientific problem that has puzzled the academic circle for a long time. This study consists of two parts: modern observation and paleo-reconstruction of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment, aiming at combining the present and the past, analysing the present and the past, and learning the future from the past.
• Modern Ocean Observations in the Indo-Pacific Ocean
• Mechanisms and Effects of changes in Indo-Pacific heat content
• Interaction mechanism between Asian monsoon, ENSO, IOD and PDO modes
• Changes in marine environment caused by sea level change
• Causes and effects of trench arc basin system and seabed complex topographic structure in Southeast Asia
• Evolution of the Indo-Pacific warm pool and its climatic environmental implications
• Continental and island arc weathering and its effects on climate and the marine environment
• Evolution of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment revealed by models
The Indo-Pacific warm pool is the largest warm pool in the world, bringing together the famous surface current systems such as the Kuroshio, the Indonesian Penetrating current, and the Equatorial current system. Although the surface current has been understood to some extent, the subsurface and deep current are still lacking in observation and research. The Walker and Hadley circulation, formed by the heating of warm water, represent the largest and most extensive atmospheric circulation system in the world. Uncovering the interplay between these factors and their impact on the global and Marine environment across different time scales remains a major challenge.
Since the Cenozoic, the world has experienced active tectonic movements, especially the collision of the Eurasian plate, the formation of the Southeast Asian trench arc basin system and the complex submarine terrain system, which have greatly changed the evolution process of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment. Under this pattern, the marine environment may also have experienced significant periodic fluctuations in response to cyclical changes in Earth's climate and sea level since the late Quaternary.
Over the past few decades, scholars around the world have conducted multifaceted research on the observation and reconstruction of modern and past ocean dynamic environments in the Indo-Pacific. In recent years, multidisciplinary research teams have used new technologies and methods to conduct large-scale comprehensive scientific investigations in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, which has brought exciting new prospects. How to use the new findings of modern marine research to analyse the evolution information of the past marine environment, and then how to use the understanding of the evolution of the past marine environment to serve the prediction of future environmental change is an important scientific problem that has puzzled the academic circle for a long time. This study consists of two parts: modern observation and paleo-reconstruction of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment, aiming at combining the present and the past, analysing the present and the past, and learning the future from the past.
• Modern Ocean Observations in the Indo-Pacific Ocean
• Mechanisms and Effects of changes in Indo-Pacific heat content
• Interaction mechanism between Asian monsoon, ENSO, IOD and PDO modes
• Changes in marine environment caused by sea level change
• Causes and effects of trench arc basin system and seabed complex topographic structure in Southeast Asia
• Evolution of the Indo-Pacific warm pool and its climatic environmental implications
• Continental and island arc weathering and its effects on climate and the marine environment
• Evolution of the Indo-Pacific dynamic environment revealed by models
Keywords: Indo-Pacific Ocean, Marine environment, Indo-Pacific warm pool, Continental and island arc weathering, Walker and Hadley circulation, modern- and paleo-climate
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