OA12
Land-Ocean Atmosphere Interactions

Main Organiser
Peter C Chu
Naval Postgraduate School
chu@oc.nps.navy.mil

Co-Organiser(s)
Qinyu Liu
Ocean University of China
liuqy@lib.ouqd.edu.cn

Shihua Lu
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and
Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences
slu@ns.lzb.ac.cn

Yiquan Qi
South China Sea Institute of Oceanology,
Chinease Academy of Sciences
yqqi@scsio.ac.cn

Brief Description
This session includes all topics encompassing the physical, chemical, and biological processes and interactions among land, ocean, and atmosphere. Papers solicited covering physical aspects will include topics such as oasis formation, desertization; land breeze circulation, sea breeze circulations; large scale interaction such as Monsoon and ITCZ; surface momentum, heat, and radiative fluxes; topographic steering of currents and winds; radiative balances; wind erosion and alongshore transport in the water column; cross-shelf transport of biological and chemicals materials in all compartments; numerical modeling and prediction; system integration and assessment; and forecasting, In addition, chemical and biological aspects are anticipated to include topics such as pollution transport and transformation processes; dry and wet processing; and interactions with coastal flora in both the atmosphere and ocean. The session, where possible, will place emphasis on innovative approaches which address key issues which involve new measurement methods, new modeling approaches, combined approaches of solving problems using statistical and dynamical modeling tools including coupling among land, ocean, and atmosphere.