The Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences

2027 Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences

January 12-15, 2027

Gateway Control of Interior Deep Circulation Variability at the PMOC Terminus
ID:905 Oral Presentation

2027-01-13 13:45 (China Standard Time)

Session:Session 12 - Abyssal Circulation and Multiscale Dynamics: Processes, Interactions, and Climate Implications

Abstract
The Western Pacific Basin (WPB) is the terminal convergence zone of the Pacific Meridional Overturning Circulation (PMOC), yet how gateway transport variability modulates its interior flow remains poorly understood. Integrating a sixteen-mooring array with GLORYS12V1 reanalysis (2010–2024) and a potential vorticity (PV) budget framework, we identify two principal interior pathways: a West Axis along the basin's western boundaries and a South Axis linking the New Guinea and Yap–Mariana Junction (YMJ) channels. Gateway forcing dominates basin dynamics: the YMJ and Izu–Ogasawara Ridge channels together explains 75.6% of total lateral PV flux variance, varying in antiphase with a one-month lag. YMJ transport variability strongly correlates with the South Axis, confirming a "side-forcing" mechanism that drives anticyclonic-to-cyclonic transitions along axes. Leveraging this relationship, observation-constrained flow field reconstruction corrects systematic sign errors in GLORYS12V1, reducing velocity biases by 20–70% at key mooring sites.
 
Speaker
Jianing Wang Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Author
Jianing Wang Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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