Session 2 |
| | Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory I |
| | Chair: Steven B. Feldstein, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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| 10:20 AM | 2.1 | Nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of climate variability
Jeffrey B. Weiss, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 10:40 AM | 2.2 | Effective stratification for the dry and moist isentropic circulations 
Olivier Pauluis, New York University, New York, NY; and F. Laliberte |
| 11:00 AM | 2.3 | Kelvin waves in the nonlinear shallow water equations on the sphere: Nonlinear traveling waves and the corner wave bifurcation 
John P. Boyd, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Zhou |
| 11:20 AM | 2.4 | A field theoretical model of stationary atmospheric vortices
Florin Spineanu, National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania; and M. O. Vlad |
| 11:40 AM | 2.5 | Effects of large-scale energy dissipation in geostrophic turbulence
Richard K. Scott, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland; and L. M. Polvani and T. J. Dunkerton |
| 12:00 PM | 2.6 | Application of spontaneous imbalance theory to the problem of clear-air turbulence forecasting
John A. Knox, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. W. McCann and P. D. Williams |