Session 9 Eddy Interactions, Jets, and Turbulence

Thursday, 16 June 2005: 9:50 AM-2:05 PM
Ballroom A (Hyatt Regency Cambridge, MA)
Host: 15th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics
Organizer:
Oliver Buhler, New York University, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York, NY

Papers:
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
9.2
Why do baroclinic eddies increase the temperature gradient?
Walter A. Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
10:30 AM
9.3
Merger and Alignment of QG Ellipsoidal Vortices
Neil Martinsen-Burrell, University of Colorado; and K. Julien and J. B. Weiss

10:50 AM
9.4
Turbulence scaling in moist climates of an idealized general circulation model
Paul A. O'Gorman, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and T. Schneider

11:10 AM
9.5
The sensitivity of global ocean circulation to Southern Ocean winds and eddies
Anand Gnanadesikan, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and R. Hallberg

11:30 AM
9.6
11:50 AM
9.7
Scaling laws and phase transitions of atmospheric macroturbulence
Tapio Schneider, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

12:10 PM
9.1a
Coffee Break

12:30 PM
9.6a
Lunch Break

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