Topics in Rotating Stratified Turbulence Workshop
August 2 - 5, 2010NCAR Center Green Campus, South Auditorium
Agenda
Monday August 2
- 8:30 - 8:50 Arrival and Registration
- 8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Introduction
- 9:00 - 10:00 Study of Very Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers Using Direct Numerical Simulation
James Riley (University of Washington)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Structure Formation in Stratified Turbulence
Yoshi Kimura (Nagoya University)
Coffee Break from 10:45 - 11:15 - 11:15 - 12:00 Statistical Theories Applied to Stratified Turbulence
Jack Herring (NCAR) - 12:00 - 12:45 The Nonhydrostatic Balanced-Geostrophic Equations
Keith Julien (University of Colorado, Boulder)
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Break - 2:00 - 3:00 Stratified Turbulence in the Atmosphere and the Oceans
Erik Lindborg (KTH, Stockholm) - 3:00 - 3:45 Modeling Mixing in Stratified Fluids by Statistical Mechanics
Joël Sommeria (LEGI Grenoble)
Break from 3:45 to 4:15 - 4:15 - 5:00 The Combined Lagrangian Advection Method (CLAM):
A New Approach to Modelling Complex Active and Passive Tracer Advection
David Dritschel (University of St Andrews, Scotland) - 5:15 Departure to Mesa Laboratory
- 5:30 - 7:00 Reception at Mesa Laboratory
Tuesday August 3
- 8:45 - 9:00 Arrival and Coffee
- 9:00 - 10:00 What do Experiments Tell Us about Rapidly-rotating Turbulence?
Peter Davidson (DAMPT, Cambridge, UK)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Surface Fronts and Filaments: Genesis, Instability, and Arrest
James McWilliams (UCLA)
Coffee Break from 10:45 - 11:15 - 11:15 - 12:00 Buoyancy Scale Dynamics in Geophysical Turbulence
Michael Waite (University of Waterloo, Ontario) - 12:00 - 12:45 Scaling Laws in Helical Rotating Turbulence: Do They Change with Reynolds Number?
Annick Pouquet (NCAR)
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Break - 2:00 - 3:00 Layering and Stratified Turbulence Surrounding and Anticyclonic Eddy
Bach Lien Hua (IFREMER) - 3:00 - 3:45 Geostrophic Turbulence Near Rapid Changes in Stratification
Shafer Smith (New York University, CIMS)
Break from 3:45 to 4:15 - 4:15 - 5:00 Short Talks
- Locality, Stability and Anomalous Sinks in Steady Two-dimensional Turbulence
Eleftherios Gkioulekas (University of Texas-Pan American) - High Resolution Simulations of Forced and Decaying Two-dimensional Turbulence
Andreas Vallgren (KTH Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden) - Are Quasi-2D Turbulent Flows (Somehow) Conformally Symmetric?
Simon Thalabard (NCAR)
- Locality, Stability and Anomalous Sinks in Steady Two-dimensional Turbulence
- 5:00 - 5:30 Group Discussion
Wednesday August 4
- 8:45 - 9:00 Group arrival and coffee
- 9:00 - 10:00 Moisture, Rotation and Stratification in the Atmospheric
Mesoscales
Peter Bartello (McGill University)
- 10:00 - 10:45 Evaluation of a Reduced Model for Investigating Hurricane Formation from Turbulence
David Schecter (NWRA, Seattle)
Coffee Break from 10:45 - 11:15 - 11:15 - 12:00 Moist Vs. Dry Barotropic Instability in a Shallow-water Model with Moist Convection
Vladimir Zeitlin (LMD, ENS-Paris) - 12:00 - 12:45 The Turbulent Equilibration of an Unstable Baroclinic Jet
Gavin Esler (University College London)
12:45 - 2:00 Lunch Break - 2:00 - 3:00 Using Simple Models and Rigorous Mathematics to
Improve Operational Atmosphere and Ocean Modelling
Michael Cullen (MetOffice, Exeter) - 3:00 - 3:45 Navier-Stokes Equations on the Beta-plane
Djoko Wirosoetisno (University of Durham)
Break from 3:45 to 4:15 - 4:15 - 5:00 How to Break the Self-consistency of Geostrophic Turbulence
Joseph Tribbia (NCAR)
Thursday August 5
- 8:45 - 9:00 Group arrival and coffee
- 9:00 - 9:45 3D Dynamics and Turbulence Induced by Mountain and Inertia-Gravity Waves in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS)
Alex Mahalov (Arizona State University)
- 9:45 - 10:30 Local Generation of Internal Solitary Waves in an Oceanic Thermocline
Chantal Staquet (LEGI, Grenoble, France)
Coffee Break from 10:30 - 11:00 - 11:00 - 11:15 Short Talk
- Evidence for an Oceanic Forward Kinetic Energy Cascade from High-Frequency Radio Doppler Surface Current Meters
Ed Zaron (Portland State University)
- Evidence for an Oceanic Forward Kinetic Energy Cascade from High-Frequency Radio Doppler Surface Current Meters
- 11:15 - 12:00 Transition to Turbulence via Transient Growth of Perturbation for Internal Gravity Waves and Shear Flows
Jean-Marc Chomaz (LadHyx, CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique) - 12:00 - 12:45 Group discussion
- 12:45 Workshop Adjourn