Session 9 |
| | Eddy Interactions, Jets, and Turbulence |
| | Organizer: Oliver Buhler, New York University, New York, NY
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| 9:50 AM | 9.1 | Vortex Evolution by Straining: Theory and Application to Cyclone/Anticyclone Asymmetry in Interior Flow Regimes
Michael T. Montgomery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. C. McWilliams and L. P. Graves |
| 10:10 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 9.2 | Why do baroclinic eddies increase the temperature gradient?
Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| 10:50 AM | 9.3 | Merger and Alignment of QG Ellipsoidal Vortices
Neil Martinsen-Burrell, University of Colorado; and K. Julien and J. B. Weiss |
| 11:10 AM | 9.4 | Turbulence scaling in moist climates of an idealized general circulation model
Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and T. Schneider |
| 11:30 AM | 9.5 | The sensitivity of global ocean circulation to Southern Ocean winds and eddies
Anand Gnanadesikan, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and R. Hallberg |
| 11:50 AM | 9.6 | Statistics of optimal perturbations in quasigeostrophic turbulence
Timothy DelSole, COLA, Calverton, MD |
| 12:10 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:45 PM | 9.7 | Scaling laws and phase transitions of atmospheric macroturbulence
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |