1999 Lecture Series Schedule
June 21 - June 25 - 10:00 am
- noon
Topics in Stirring and Mixing
William R. Young
Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California at San Diego
All lectures are held at Walsh Cottage, unless otherwise noted.
| Monday,June 21 | Eddy Diffusivity --- Single Particle Statistics |
| Tuesday,June 22 | Lyapunov Exponents ---- Two-Particle Statistics |
| Wednesday, June 23 | Shear Dispersion And Density Driven Flows |
| Thursday, June 24 | Correlation Functions And Type I Anomalous Diffusion |
| Friday,
June 25 @ 10:30 by Bruce Morton
2:30 pm |
Jets
Deflected in Cross-Flow as Event Mixing
Project Discussions |
| Monday,
June 28 @ 10:00 am by Ray Pierre-Humbert
2:30 pm |
The
Batchelor Spectrum and Tracer Cascades
Project Discussions |
| Tuesday, June 29 | Gradient Expulsion And Type II Anomalous Diffusion |
| Wednesday, June 30 | The Multi-Scale Method I: Passive Scalars |
| Thursday, July 1 | The Multi-Scale Method II: Vorticity |
| Friday, July 2 | Two-Dimensional Turbulence And Vortices |
| Tuesday,
July 6 @ 10:30am
1:30pm
|
Mixing
and Stirring and the Overturning Circulation by A. Gnanadesikan
Looking for the Universal Statistics of a Passive Tracer in the Lower Stratosphere: Probability Distribution Functions of Tracer Concentration, Gradients, and Increments by Yongyun Hu |
| Wednesday, July 7 @ 10:30am | Three-vortex Motion and Two-dimensional Turbulence by Hassan Aref |
| Thursday,
July 8 @ 10:30am
2:00pm |
Mesoscale
Turbulence and Ocean Biology by Glenn Flierl
A Dissipation Integral with Application to Ocean Diffusivities and Structure by Edwin Schneider |
| Friday, July 9 @ 10:30am | The Role of Mixed Layer Entrainment in Water Mass Formation by Amit Tandon |
July 12-16, Mini Symposium on Ocean Mixing
| Monday,
July 12 @ 10:00-12:00
Redfield Auditorium |
Mixing in the Ocean Interior, John Toole, WHOI |
| Redfield Auditorium @ 14:00-15:00 | Tracer Studies of Ocean Mixing, James Ledwell, WHOI |
| Tuesday,
July 13 9:30-11:30
Clark Rm. 507 |
The Moon
and Mixing, Walter Munk, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, Univ. of Calif. at San Diego |
| 15:00-16:00
@ Clark Rm. 507
Physical Oceanography Department Seminar |
Parameterizing
the
Effects of Eddies and of Limited Horizontal Resolution in Ocean GCMs: the Horizontal and Temporal-Residual-Mean Circulation, Trevor McDougall, CISRO, AUSTRALIA |
| Wednesday,
July 14
10:00-12:00 @ Redfield Auditorium |
Marginal Mixing Ideas, Chris Garrett, University of Victoria, CANADA |
| 14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | A Rough Recipe for Mixing, Kurt Polzin, WHOI |
| Thursday, July 15 10:30-11:30 @ Redfield Auditorium | Evidence
for Potential Vorticity Finestructure and its Role in
Horizontal Mixing, Eric Kunze, University of Washington |
| 14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | Secrets of Double Diffusion, Ray Schmitt, WHOI |
| Friday,
July 16
10:30-11:30 @ Redfield Auditorium |
The Neglect of Two Dimensional Double-Diffusive Processes in Studies of Ocean Circulation, J. Stewart Turner, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA |
| 14:00-15:00 @ Redfield Auditorium | Consequences of the Nonlinear Nature of the Equation of State, Trevor McDougall, CSIRO Marine Research, AUSTRALIA |
| Monday, July 19 @ 10:30 am | Flow in Random Porous Media by J.B. Keller |
| Tuesday, July 20 @ 10:30am | Can we learn from OGCMs? Speaker: E. Cassignet |
| Wednesday, July 21 @ 10:30am | The Interactions of Shear and Diffusion in the Mixing of Passive Scalars and Vorticity by A. Bernoff |
| Thursday,
July 22 @ 10:30am
@ 2:00pm |
Temperature,
Salinity and Spice in Convection. Speaker: S. Legg
Vortex Merging in QG Flows. Speaker: J. Von Hardenberg |
| Friday,
July 23 @ 10:30 am
@ 2:30pm |
Nonlinear
Gravity-capillary Waves with Surface Forcing and Viscous Dissipation: a
Theoretical Model Based on a Viscous Boundary Layer Approximation by
A. Fedorov
Boundary Reynolds Number for Turbulent Plane Couette Flow. Speaker: W. Malkus |
| Monday, July 26 @ 10:30 am | When Oceans Freeze. Speaker: J. Wetlaufer |
|
Tuesday, July 27 @ 10:30 am |
Lagrangian dynamics and tracer evolution near an unstable jet. Speaker: E. Boss |
| Wednesday,
July 28 @ 10:30am
2:00 pm |
L.
Howard - TBA
R. Ford - TBA |
| Thursday,
July 29 @ 10:30 am
2:00 pm |
Vortex
Generation by Line Plumes in a Rotating Stratified Flow. Speaker: J.
Bush
Mixing Mechanisms at Gravity Current Fronts. Speaker: J. Parsons |
| Friday, July 30 @ 10:30 am | Impure Mixing. Speaker: A. Provenzale |
| Monday, August 2 @10:30am | Lagrangian View of Turbulence. Speaker: Chertkov |
| Tuesday, August 3 @ 10:30 am | Transport,
Mixing and chaos in Large-Scale Geophysical Flows.
Speaker: H. Yong |
| Wednesday, August 4 @ 10:30 am | C. Deening - TBA |
| Thursday, August 5 @ 10:30 am | J. Pedlosky - TBA |
| Friday, August 6 @ 10:30 am | Multiple Equilibria Flows. Speaker: J. Whitehead. |