Session 2 Stability of Flows

Monday, 25 June 2007: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Ballroom South (La Fonda on the Plaza)
Host: 16th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Chair:
Bruce R. Sutherland, Univ. of Alberta, Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Edmonton, AB

Papers:
10:45 AM
2.1
Evidence for Deep PV Mixing in the ACC
K. Shafer Smith, New York University, New York, NY; and J. Marshall
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
2.2
Stochastic baroclinic instability
Francis J. Poulin, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and G. Flierl

2.3
Relating Over-Reflection and Wave Geometry to the Counter Propagating Rossby Wave Perspective: Toward a Deeper Mechanistic Understanding of Shear Instability

11:30 AM
2.3A
Spontaneous inertia-gravity wave radiation from cloudy and baroclinic cyclones
David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and M. T. Montgomery

11:45 AM
2.4
A calculation of Lyapunov exponents for atmospheric blocking
Athar Hussain, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and A. R. Lupo and S. Dostoglou
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (213.3 kB)

12:00 PM
2.5
Transient development of perturbations in a barotropic shear flow
Nikolaos Bakas, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA; and B. F. Farrell

12:15 PM
2.6
Instability and breakdown of a vertical vortex pair in a strongly stratified fluid
Michael L. Waite, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and P. K. Smolarkiewicz
Recorded Presentation

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