Maxwell Institute Colloquium

Meeting on Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Edinburgh, 8th April 2008

9.30-10.10 am

Sergey Nazarenko (Warwick): Rossby waves coupled to zonal jets: turbulence suppression loop.

10.10-10.50 am

Rémi Tailleux (Reading): Is stratified turbulence at low Mach numbers really incompressible?

10.50-11.20 am

Coffee

11.20-12.00 am

Victor Shrira (Keele): Near-inertial waves on the 'non-traditional' beta-plane beyond the inertial latitude: growth and breaking vs decay and dissipation.

12.00-12.50 pm

Oliver Bühler (Courant): Internal waves in the deep ocean: focusing, saturation, and mixing.

12.50-2.00 pm

Lunch and discussions

2.00-2.50 pm

Bill Young (Scripps): Energy injection, and statistically steady dual-cascades in 2D turbulence.

2.50-3.30 pm

Stephen Belcher (Reading): Dispersion in urban area.

The meeting will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, 14 India Street. Seating is limited; please contact J.Vanneste@ed.ac.uk if you would like to attend.


Associated event: the lecture