Workshop on Balance, Boundaries and Mixing in the Climate Problem

September 28-30, 2011

Program

 

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

09:00 - 09:30
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Vladimir Zeitlin
(École Normale Supérieure)
Long-wave instabilities of ageostrophic jets
Abstract
10:10 - 10:50
James C. McWilliams
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Balance, boundaries and mixing in a separating boundary current
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Patrice Klein
(IFREMER)
Interaction between the ocean mesoscale turbulence and the surface mixed-layer dynamics
11:50 - 12:30
Amit Tandon
(UMass Darmouth)
Loss of balance in a strong unforced front
Abstract
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:40
Erich Becker
(Rostock University)
Indications of upper tropospheric stratified turbulence in a high-resolution mechanistic GCM
Abstract
14:40 - 15:20
Jacques Vanneste
(University of Edinburgh)
Inertia-gravity-wave emission by potential-vorticity and potential-temperature anomalies
Abstract
15:20 - 15:40
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:40 - 16:20
Keith Ngan
(Met Office)
Middle atmosphere predictability in an NWP model: Balance and the inverse error cascade
16:20 - 17:00
Rafail V. Abramov
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Suppression of chaos at slow variables by rapidly mixing fast dynamics
Abstract

 

Thursday, September 29, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:40
Balasubramanya T. Nadiga
(Los Alamos National Lab, MS-B296)
Flux of energy across scales in two oceanographic flows
09:40 - 10:20
Ian Grooms
(New York University)
On weakly stratified rotating turbulence and the breakdown of the distinction between balanced and unbalanced motion
Abstract
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:40 - 11:20
Leif Thomas
(Stanford University)
Transfer of kinetic energy from balanced to unbalanced flows through symmetric instability, near-inertial motions, and strain
Abstract
11:20 - 12:00
Eric A. D’Asaro
(University of Washington)
Potential vorticity balances at a evolving front
12:00 - 13:40
Lunch break
13:40 - 14:20
Baylor Fox-Kemper
(University of Colorado at Boulder)
Mixing, eddies, and all that: Ocean parameterization developments from 4m to 400km
14:20 - 15:00
Nicolas Grisouard
(New York University)
Oceanic mean flows forced by two- and three-dimensional internal waves
Abstract
15:00 - 15:20
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:20 - 16:00
Amala Mahadevan
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
From Fronts to Filaments
16:00 - 16:40
Gualtiero Badin
(Boston University)
Lateral mixing in the pycnocline by baroclinic mixed layer eddies
Abstract

Session d’affiches (17h00 - 19h00) / Poster Session (17:00 - 19:00)
Meeting room(s) : 6245

Farid Ait Chaalal
(McGill University)
Finite time Lyapunov exponents in two-dimension Navier-Stokes: application to a infinitely fast chemical reaction
Abstract
Sonaljit Mukherjee
(University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Submesoscale resolving simulations with second order turbulence closure
Abstract
Sanjiv Ramachandran
(University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)
Submesoscale-resolving simulations using an explicit subgrid model for anisotropic grids
Abstract
Gjergj Smailekaj
(Institute of Atmospheric and Marine Science)
Mixing Processes across the Otranto Strait
Abstract
Karan Venayagamoorthy
(Colorado State University)
Mixing in stratified turbulence
Abstract
Jena Vinod
(Columbia Institute of Eng. & Technology)
Atmospheric modelling of particulate matter and its impact
Abstract
Jinbo Wang
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Vertical velocities in an upper ocean front from a Lagrangian perspective
Abstract
Alexander Bihlo
(Université de Montréal)
Invariant parameterization schemes
Abstract

 

Friday, September 30, 2011

09:00 - 09:30
Coffee & Croissants


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:30 - 10:10
Geoffrey K. Vallis
(Princeton University)
Role of Mixing in the General Circulation of the Ocean
10:10 - 10:50
Stephanie Waterman
(Imperial College London)
Turbulence and internal waves in the ACC
Abstract
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:10 - 11:50
Igor Kamenkovich
(RSMAS - University of Miami)
Anisotropic transport by eddies in models and observations
Abstract
11:50
Closing remarks