First meeting: programme

Thursday 26 June

9.00-9.25: Arrival and welcome
9.25-9.50: Sergei Annenkov (Keele): Fast nonlinear evolution of wave spectra
9.50-10.15: Peter Janssen (ECMWF): Impact of Mercator ocean surface currents on the ECMWF operational ocean wave model
10.15-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.25: Roger Grimshaw (Loughborough): Flow interaction with topography: the generation of undular bores
11.25-11.50: Tatiana Talipova (Loughborough): Deep penetration of internal waves in the shear flow
11.50-12.15: Jonathan Healey (Keele): Absolute instabilities of mixing layers
12.15-14.00: Lunch and discussions
14.00-14.25: David Dritschel (St Andrews): Balanced motion in the atmosphere: the fast/slow myth
14.25-14.50: Michael McIntyre (Cambridge): Two mechanisms to keep vortical motions balanced
14.50-15.15: Jonathan Aspden (Edinburgh): Inertia-gravity-wave generation: a geometric-optics approach
15.15-16.00: Coffee
16.00-16.25: Eric Danioux (Ifremer): 3D propagation of inertial waves in an oceanic turbulent eddy field
16.25-16.50: Keith Ngan (Met Office): Dissipation of synoptic-scale flow by small-scale turbulence
16.50-17.15: David Smeed (NOCS) Interaction of internal waves and mesoscale flows in the Southern Ocean - plans for new observations in the DIMES program
17.15-18.00: Discussions

9.00-9.25: Vladimir Zeitlin (LMD, ENS): Resonant excitation of equatorial waves by wave-mean interactions
9.25-9.50: Mike Cullen (Met Office): Recent developments in applications of optimal transportation to meteorological problems
9.50-10.15: Gavin Esler (UCL): The turbulent equilibration of an unstable baroclinic jet
10.15-11.00: Coffee
11.00-11.25: Rich Wood (Cambridge): A new model for Jupiter's jets
11.25-11.50: Richard Scott (St Andrews): Superrotating equatorial jets
11.50-12.15: Pavel Berloff (Woods Hole): Formation of multiple zonal jets in the oceans
12.15-14.00: Lunch and discussions
14.00-14.25: Volker Naulin (JET): Zonal flow generation in plasma edge turbulence simulations
14.25-14.50: Peter Read (Oxford): Eddy/wave-driven jets and mean flows in geostrophic turbulence experiments
14.50-15.15: Tom Jacoby (Oxford): Short period waves in rotating baroclinic experiments and models
15.15-15.40: John Methven (Reading): Wave-mean flow interaction throughout a baroclinic wave life cycle
15.40-16.15: Coffee
16.15-17.00: Discussions