14th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics

Session 1: Geostrophic Turbulence

Monday, 9 June 2003: 8:45 AM-10:00 AM
Chair:  Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology
Papers:
  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
  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