2008 Program of Study: Perspectives and Challenges in GFD (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics)

• Main Authors: Balmforth, Neil J., Veronis, George, Childress, Stephen W., Doering, Charles, Emanuel, Kerry, Fauve, Stephan, Ferrari, Raffaele, Garrett, Christopher J., Huppert, Herbert E., Marshall, John, Pierrehumbert, Raymond T., Radko, Timour
• Other Authors: WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION MA DEPT OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Electricity and Magnetism; *GEODYNAMICS; *OCEANOGRAPHY; LECTURES; OCEAN MODELS; FLUID DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERE MODELS; GFD(GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS); Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA502633; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA502633

PRINCIPAL LECTURES. Steve Childress: Dynamo Theory and GFD; Charlie Doering: Convection, Stability and Turbulence; Kerry Emanuel: Waves and Vortices Driven by Interfacial Fluxes; Stephan Fauve: Turbulent Dynamos: experiments, nonlinear saturation of the magnetic field and field reversals; Raffaele Ferrari: Energetics of a Turbulent Ocean; Chris Garrett: Ocean Mixing, Internal Tides and Tidal Power; Herbert Huppert: Gravity Currents and Solidification; John Marshall: GFD Experiments in Climate; Ray Pierrehumbert: Atmospheric Escape; Timour Radko: Double-Diffusive Convection. FELLOWS REPORTS. Sylvain Barbot: Models of volcanic tremor and singing icebergs; Chris Cawthorn: First Contact in a Viscous Fluid; Christophe Gissinger: Energy and dissipation in MHD systems; Celine Guervilly: MHD Toy Model of the Solar Radiative Zone; George Hagstrom: Bounds on Surface Stress Driven Flows; Ian Hewitt: Continual Skipping - Getting a Kick From Water; Malte Jansen: On the Organization of Geostrophic Circulations Over Large Scale Topography by Eddy-Diffusion of PV; Amrita Shravat: Turbulent Mixing in Shear Driven Stratified Fluid; Toby Wood: Crumpling of a Thin Ice Sheet Due to Incident Flow; Yutian Wu: Equilibria of Diffusive Moist Static Energy Balance Model. Lectures presented at Woods Hole Oceanographical Institution from 16 Jun-21 Aug 2008. Sponsored in part by the National Science Foundation Grant no. OCE-0325296. The original document contains color images.