Session 11 Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics Theory 2

Wednesday, 15 June 2011: 10:45 AM-12:30 PM
Pennington AB (Davenport Hotel and Tower)
Host: Fluid2011
Chair:
Noboru Nakamura, Univ. of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL

Papers:
10:45 AM
11.1
On the mechanism underlying the spontaneous emergence of barotropic zonal jets
Nikolaos Bakas, National and Kapodistrian Univ., Athens, Greece; and P. J. Ioannou
11:00 AM
11.2
On the impact of middle-atmosphere thermal tides on the propagation and dissipation of gravity waves
Fabian Senf, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Permoserstraße 15, 04318, Leipzig, Germany; and U. Achatz
11:15 AM
11.3
Similarities in the energetics of the ACC, mesoscale eddies, tidal internal waves, and surface gravity waves
Hidenori Aiki, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
11:30 AM
11.4
Rossby solitary waves embedded in equatorial jets
John P. Boyd, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and C. Zhou
11:45 AM
11.5
Superrotation recipes
Tapio Schneider, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; and J. Liu
12:00 PM
11.6
Information flow and causality within atmosphere-ocean systems
X. San Liang, China Institute for Advanced Study, Beijing, Beijing, China
12:15 PM
11.7
Vorticity coordinates and balanced models
Scott R. Fulton, Clarkson Univ., Potsdam, NY; and L. G. Silvers and W. H. Schubert
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