Session 6 |
| | Ocean Dynamics I |
| | Organizer: Alain Colin de Verdiere, Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans, Brest France
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | The response of the ocean to decadal variability in atmospheric forcing: wind versus thermal forcing 
LuAnne Thompson, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Ladd |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | Testing theories of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current against observations
Richard Karsten, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. Marshall |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Wind-induced constraints on the mass and buoyancy transports in a simple adiabatic model of the ocean circulation
Rémi Tailleux, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/UPMC, Paris, France |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | Offshore Propagation of Eddy Kinetic Energy in the California Current
Robert L. Haney, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. A. Hale and D. E. Dietrich |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Long planetery waves in a three layer ocean with a wind-driven steady circulation
Ivana Cerovecki, COAS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and R. de Szoeke |
| 9:45 AM | 6.6 | Generation of Strong Mid-Ocean Eddies from Nonzonal Mean Flows
Brian K. Arbic, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and G. R. Flierl |
| 10:00 AM | 6.7 | The statistical dynamics of Geophysical flows
Terence J. O'Kane, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and J. S. Frederiksen |
| 10:15 AM | 6.8 | Horizontal dispersion of near-inertial oscillations in a turbulent mesoscale eddy field
Patrice Klein, IFREMER, Plouzane, France; and S. Llewellyn-Smith |