2008 Program of Study: Perspectives and Challenges in GFD (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics)
2009
Balmforth, Neil J. | Veronis, George | Childress, Stephen W. | Doering, Charles | Emanuel, Kerry | Fauve, Stephan | Ferrari, Raffaele | Garrett, Christopher J. | Huppert, Herbert E. | Marshall, John | Pierrehumbert, Raymond T. | Radko, Timour
PRINCIPAL LECTURES. Steve Childress: Dynamo Theory and GFD; Charlie Doering: Convection, Stability and Turbulence; Kerry Emanuel: Waves and Vortices Driven by Interfacial Fluxes; Stephan Fauve: Turbulent Dynamos: experiments, nonlinear saturation of the magnetic field and field reversals; Raffaele Ferrari: Energetics of a Turbulent Ocean; Chris Garrett: Ocean Mixing, Internal Tides and Tidal Power; Herbert Huppert: Gravity Currents and Solidification; John Marshall: GFD Experiments in Climate; Ray Pierrehumbert: Atmospheric Escape; Timour Radko: Double-Diffusive Convection. FELLOWS REPORTS. Sylvain Barbot: Models of volcanic tremor and singing icebergs; Chris Cawthorn: First Contact in a Viscous Fluid; Christophe Gissinger: Energy and dissipation in MHD systems; Celine Guervilly: MHD Toy Model of the Solar Radiative Zone; George Hagstrom: Bounds on Surface Stress Driven Flows; Ian Hewitt: Continual Skipping - Getting a Kick From Water; Malte Jansen: On the Organization of Geostrophic Circulations Over Large Scale Topography by Eddy-Diffusion of PV; Amrita Shravat: Turbulent Mixing in Shear Driven Stratified Fluid; Toby Wood: Crumpling of a Thin Ice Sheet Due to Incident Flow; Yutian Wu: Equilibria of Diffusive Moist Static Energy Balance Model.
Show more [+] Less [-]Lectures presented at Woods Hole Oceanographical Institution from 16 Jun-21 Aug 2008. Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Grant no. OCE-0325296. The original document contains color images.
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