Envisioning 2022: Making Purposeful Impact
After a challenging year, INOS continues to achieve strong performance through various outcomes impacting the scientific communities, industries and society.
We realise how important our research is to the nation, thus this year we share a slogan, ‘making purposeful impact’ to our team. We want to be fully committed to making things right for our stakeholders by building trust through our research and innovation that purposely design to provide solution based on relevant needs.
This is a long-term effort demanding commitment through improving the quality of our postgraduates and talents, managing ocean facilities and data product efficiently and making our innovative and impactful research outcomes to various stakeholders.
We believe what we do in INOS will contribute to building a strong foundation for Malaysia’s ocean future.
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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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