Monsoon, Will It Be Any Different This Year?

By Mohd Fadzil Akhir If you’re in Terengganu or Kelantan, you’re likely experiencing continuous rain this week. Rainy, cloudy and gloomy days will turn down the heat a little as the atmosphere giving ways to the cooler north-east monsoon air to stay here for the next couple of months. But this year will be different. […]

Monsoon, Will It Be Any Different This Year?

By Mohd Fadzil Akhir If you’re in Terengganu or Kelantan, you’re likely experiencing continuous rain this week. Rainy, cloudy and gloomy days will turn down the heat a little as the atmosphere giving ways to the cooler north-east monsoon air to stay here for the next couple of months. But this year will be different. […]

Post COVID-19 Marine Life Status At Marine Park Islands Of Terengganu

By Zainuddin Bachok The pandemic COVID-19 has created chaos around the world. Since the spread of COVID-19 and the implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO), most human activities that usually take place have now stopped for longer than usual, and this has resulted in a quick and drastic change in the way the human population […]

Post COVID-19 Marine Life Status At Marine Park Islands Of Terengganu

By Zainuddin Bachok The pandemic COVID-19 has created chaos around the world. Since the spread of COVID-19 and the implementation of Movement Control Order (MCO), most human activities that usually take place have now stopped for longer than usual, and this has resulted in a quick and drastic change in the way the human population […]

What Else is Needed for Mangrove Conservation

By Behara Satyanarayana The mangrove forests have been treated as destroyable wastelands until recently. However, after witnessing their magnitude of coastal protection during the Indian Ocean tsunami (24 Dec 2004), both government and non-government organizations began massive mangrove plantation projects all over the tropical and subtropical coastlines. In fact, mangrove ecosystems gained a renewed managemental […]

What Else is Needed for Mangrove Conservation

By Behara Satyanarayana The mangrove forests have been treated as destroyable wastelands until recently. However, after witnessing their magnitude of coastal protection during the Indian Ocean tsunami (24 Dec 2004), both government and non-government organizations began massive mangrove plantation projects all over the tropical and subtropical coastlines. In fact, mangrove ecosystems gained a renewed managemental […]

TOMSY Online Conference, A Success!

By Saifullah Arifin Jaaman On 23-24 November 2020, INOS held the 2nd. Tropical Ocean and Marine Sciences International Symposium (TOMSY2020. This fully virtual symposium was officiated by the Honourable Professor Dato’ Dr. Nor Aieni Haji Mokhtar, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. TOMSY2020 brought together a wide array of scientists from academia, government and industry […]

TOMSY Online Conference, A Success!

By Saifullah Arifin Jaaman On 23-24 November 2020, INOS held the 2nd. Tropical Ocean and Marine Sciences International Symposium (TOMSY2020. This fully virtual symposium was officiated by the Honourable Professor Dato’ Dr. Nor Aieni Haji Mokhtar, Vice Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. TOMSY2020 brought together a wide array of scientists from academia, government and industry […]

INOS-MMS Empower Industry Partnership in Conservation

INOS-MMS Empower Industry Partnership in Conservation By Mohd Uzair Rusli On 7th September 2020, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) and MISC Maritime Services (MMS) officiated the strategic cooperation at the launch of the ‘UMT-MMS Sea Turtle Conservation Program’. The established relationship supports turtle research and conservation efforts at Chagar Hutang Turtle Sanctuary, Pulau Redang. As a […]

Abstract

While the sinking formation of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is well understood, how this bottom water "returns home" through upwelling within ocean basins, particularly the Indo-Pacific, remains shrouded in uncertainty. In the 1960s, Munk’s classic "Abyssal Recipes" theory sought to explain these abyssal flows, yet later observations exposed two significant conflicts with real-world data. In 2016, Ferrari, McDougall, and colleagues proposed the "Towards a New Abyssal Recipe" framework, introducing bottom boundary layer (BBL) upwelling to address Munk’s inconsistencies. Drawing on recent evidence of a potential cooling trend in the deep ocean, this talk revisits these debates, offering a fresh interpretation of Munk’s discrepancies and proposing a new mechanism for abyssal upwelling in the Indo-Pacific. It contributes to the ongoing quest to unravel how bottom waters complete their global journey.

Presented by: Prof. Dr. HAN Lei
Affiliation: China-ASEAN College of Marine Science, Xiamen University, Malaysia
Address: Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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