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The Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences
Theme for 2008: Geophysical Turbulence Phenomena
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Workshop 1. Turbulent Theory and Modeling
27-29 February 2008; Boulder, CO
AGENDA with links to Lectures
NCAR, Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
| 8:00-8:30 |
Registration and Coffee |
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Themes in Turbulence Research (Unsolved Problems?)| [Lecture]
Jackson Herring, Earth & Sun Systems Laboratory, NCAR |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Irreducible Imprecision in Atmospheric and Oceanic Simulations [Abs]|
James C. McWilliams, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
and Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, UCLA
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| 9:30-9:45 |
Global Energy Dissipation Rate of Oceanic Low-frequency Flows by Quadratic Bottom
Drag: Results From Observations and 1/32 Degree Models [Abs] |
Brian Arbic, University of Texas, Austin
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
On Decadal Variability of the Ocean Gyres [Abs] |[Lecture]
Pavel Berloff, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods
Hole
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Reduced Equations for Langmuir Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Greg Chini, University of New Hampshire, Durham
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Geostrophic Turbulence in the Ocean Mixed Layer [Abs] | [Lecture]
Raffaele Ferrari, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT
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| 11:45 - 12:00 |
The LANS-alpha Turbulence Parameterization in Ocean Modeling
[Abs]| [Lecture]
Mark Petersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 12:00 - 12:15 |
Towards a New Interpretation of Upper-ocean Dynamics at Meso and Submesoscales Using Surface Quasi-Geostrophy [Abs]| [Lecture]
Guillaume Lapeyre, Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique,
Paris, France
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Parameterizing Eddies for Global Climate Models [Abs] | [Lecture]
Baylor Fox-Kemper, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder
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| 12:30pm - 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:45 |
A Framework for Understanding Wave-vortical Mode Interactions in Rotating, Stratified Flows [Abs] | [Lecture]
Leslie Smith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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| 2:45 - 3:00 |
Scale Interactions and Scaling Laws in Rotating Flows at Moderate Rossby Numbers and Large Reynolds Numbers [Abs] | [Lecture]
Pablo Mininni, Turbulence Numerics Team, NCAR
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| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Anisotropic High-wavenumber Constraints on Energy in Rotating and Stratified Flows [Abs] | [Lecture]
Susan Kurien, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 3:15 - 3:30 |
Dynamics of Coherent Vortices in Forced-Dissipated, Rotating Hydrostatic Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Annalisa Bracco, Georgia Institute of Technology
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| 3:30pm - 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
Rapidly Rotation Convection [Abs] | [Lecture]
Edgar Knobloch, University of California, Berkeley
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| 4:30 - 4:45 |
Spherical Shallow Water Turbulence: Cyclone-Anticyclone Asymmetry, Potential Vorticity Homogenization and Jet Formation [Abs] | [Lecture]
Jemma Shipton, University of Oxford, England
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| 4:45 - 5:00 |
Zonal Jet Formation and Equatorial Super-rotation in the Destabilization of Short Mixed Rossby-gravity Waves [Abs] | [Lecture]
Mark Fruman, IFREMER, Plouzane, France
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| 5:00 - 5:15 |
Separation of Scales at High Latitudes
in Rotating and Stratified Flows [Abs] | [Lecture]
Elizabeth Wingate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 5:00 - 5:30 |
Discussion |
Thursday February 28
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Multi-Scale Models on Mesoscales and Coherent Structures: Squall Lines and the Hurricane Embryo [Abs] | [Lecture]
Andrew Majda, New York University
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| 9:45 - 10:00 |
Stochastic Forcing of Ocean Variability by the North Atlantic Oscillation [Abs] | [Lecture]
Andrew Moore, University of California, Santa Cruz
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Inviscid Limit for Damped and Driven Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations in R2 [Abs] | [Lecture]
Fabio Ramos, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Hyperviscosity, Galerkin Truncation and Bottlenecks [Abs] | [Lecture]
Uriel Frisch, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur
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| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Turbulence Thermalization and Spectral Bottleneck [Abs] | [Lecture]
Jian-Zhou Zhu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
A Quasi-Normal Scale Elimination (QNSE) Theory of Turbulent Flows with Stable Stratification [Abs] | [Lecture]
Semion Sukoriansky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Feedback Loop in 2D Turbulence: Formation of Zonal Jets and Suppression of Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Sergey Nazarenko, University of Warwick, UK
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Multiresolution Analysis and Visualization Using VAPOR [Abs] | [Lecture]
Alan Norton, Computational and Information Systems Lab, NCAR
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| 12:30pm - 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:45 |
Large-scale Organization of Small-scale Flow: The Examples of 2D Turbulence and of Rayleigh-Benard Convection [Abs] | [Lecture]
Antonello Provenzale, Institute of Atmospheric and Climate Science, Turin, Italy
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| 2:45 - 3:00 |
Orientation of Eddy-Flux of Potential Vorticity in Geostrophic Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Balu Nadiga, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 3:00 - 3:15 |
Altimeter Data Reveals an Anisotropic Inverse Cascade in the Surface Geostrophic Flow of the World Ocean [Abs] | [Lecture]
Rob Scott, Institute for Geophysics, University of Texas, Austin
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| 3:15 - 3:30 |
Dissipation of Synoptic-scale Flow by Small-scale Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Keith Ngan, McGill University
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| 3:30pm - 4:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
VKS Turbulent Dynamos, [Abs] | [Lecture]
Mickael Bourgoin, Laboratoire de Physique ENS-Lyon
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| 4:30 - 4:45 |
A Potential Vorticity Dynamics on the Sphere [Abs] | [Lecture]
David Muraki, Simon Fraser University, Canada
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| 4:45 - 5:15 |
Discussion |
| 5:30 - 7:30 |
Reception followed by a presentation by Antonello Provenzale on ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity in the Italian Alps
Mesa Laboratory, Damon Room |
Friday, February 29
| 8:30 - 9:00 |
Coffee |
| 9:00 - 9:45 |
Geostrophic Turbulence: The Long Road from Quasigeostrophic Theory to the Real World
[Abs] | [Lecture]
Geoff Vallis, Princeton University
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| 9:45 - 10:00 |
Turbulence Onset from Gravity-Wave Breaking: Linear and Primary Nonlinear Dynamics [Abs] | [Lecture]
Ulrich Achatz, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt, Germany
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
From Quasigeostrophic Turbulence to Stratified Turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Peter Bartello, McGill University, Canada
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Super-Rotation Flow in a Precessing Spherical Cavity [Abs] | [Lecture]
Shigeo Kida, Kyoto University, Japan
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| 11:30 - 11:45 |
A Baroclinic Model for the Atmospheric Energy Spectrum [Abs] | [Lecture]
Ross Tulloch, New York University
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| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Requirements to Predict the Surface Layer with High Accuracy at High Reynolds Numbers Using Large-Eddy Simulation [Abs] | [Lecture]
James Brasseur, Pennsylvania State University
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| 12:15 - 12:30 |
Designing Simulations to Overcome the Surface Layer Overshoot of Mean Shear in Large-Eddy Simulation of the Neutral Atmospheric Boundary Layer [Abs] | [Lecture]
Tie Wei, Pennsylvania State University
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| 12:30pm - 2:00 |
Lunch |
| 2:00 - 2:45 |
The Roles of Geophysical Turbulence in Tropical Cyclone Dynamics, How We Model These Processes, And How Well We Do It [Abs] | [Lecture]
David Nolan, University of Miami
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| 2:45 - 3:00 |
Theory and Computation of Wavenumber-2 Vortex Rossby Wave Instabilities in Hurricane-like Vortices [Abs] | [Lecture]
Chris Jeffery, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| 3:00 - 3:15 |
On the Energetics of Turbulent Mixing in Stratified Fluids [Abs] | [Lecture]
Remi Tailleux, University of Reading, UK
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| 3:15 - 3:30 |
Spatially Localized Global Fourier Analysis of 2D 3-vortex Dynamics at R=2x104 Simulated by Dynamically Adaptive Spectral Elements [Abs] |[Lecture]
Aimé Fournier, Turbulence Numerics Team, NCAR
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| 3:30 - 4:00 |
Closing Remarks |
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| 4:00 |
WORKSHOP ADJOURNS |
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