Session 1 |
| | Geostrophic Turbulence |
| | Chair: Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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| 8:45 AM | 1.1 | A Closure Theory for Quasigeostrophic Turbulence
Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | Estimates of the energy flux between length scales of oceanic mesoscale eddies
Robert Bruce Scott, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
| 9:15 AM | 1.3 | Vertical structure of potential vorticity fluxes in weakly (and strongly) unstable flows 
K. Shafer Smith, New York University, New York, NY |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Interior dissipation of geostrophic flows through unbalanced instabilities
M. Jeroen Molemaker, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; and J. C. McWilliams |
| 9:45 AM | 1.5 | Self-similarity of vorticity dynamics in decaying CHM turbulence
Theodore G. Shepherd, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and T. Iwayama and T. Watanabe |