2008 Program of Study: Perspectives and Challenges in GFD (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics)
Abstract
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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA502633
Entities
People
- Charles Doering
- Christopher J. Garrett
- George Veronis
- Herbert E. Huppert
- John M Marshall
- Kerry Emanuel
- Neil J. Balmforth
- Raffaele Ferrari
- Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
- Stephan Fauve
- Stephen W. Childress
- Timour Radko
Organizations
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution