Session 9 Mesoscale and sub-mesoscale dynamics

Tuesday, 14 June 2011: 3:45 PM-5:00 PM
Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair:
Antoine Venaille, NOAA/GFDL/Princeton Univ., Aos, Princeton, NJ

Papers:
9.1
Mixing, Eddies, and all that: Ocean Parameterization Developments from 4m to 400km

3:45 PM
9.2
The evolution and propagation of quasigeostrophic ocean eddies
Jeffrey J. Early, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and R. M. Samelson and D. B. Chelton

4:00 PM
9.3
On the appropriateness of the baroclinic mode or the SQG dynamics to describe the surface mesoscale motions
Guillaume Lapeyre, LMD, Paris, France
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
9.4
A constraint on the magnitude and structure of eddy potential vorticity fluxes
James R. Maddison, Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; and D. P. Marshall and P. S. Berloff
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
9.5
On the effect of strain on symmetric instability
Leif N. Thomas, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
9.6
Geostrophic turbulence near rapid changes in stratification
K. Shafer Smith, New York Univ., New York, NY; and E. Bernard
Recorded Presentation

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