Fluid Dynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences (FDEPS)
  7th FDEPS workshop
  Nov 8 - Nov 11, 2005
  Kansai Seminar House 

Seventh FEDPS Workshop

• Date :
  Nov 8 - 11, 2005

• Co-organizer: Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University

• Place :
  Kansai Seminar House
  23Takenouchi-cho, Ichijojii, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8134 JAPAN
  Phone:+81-75-711-2115 FAX:+81-75-701-5256
  http://www.academy-kansai.com/

Program

• Nov 8 (Tue) - Nov 10 (Thu): Intensive Lecture Series and Free Discussion
  G. K. Vallis (Princeton Univ.)
  "Geostrophic Turbulence and the General Circulation of the Ocean and Atmosphere"
  
  • PDF Lecture Note (projected version)
  • Nov 8 (Tue)
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      Lecture 1 Two-dimensional turbulence
      Introduction to inertial ranges, effect of beta, formation of jets.
      
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch, Free discussion
    • 14:00 - 17:00
      Lecture 2 Geostrophic turbulence
      Analog to 2D turbulence, baroclinic instability and turbulence, scaling theories.
      
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Free discussion
  • Nov 9 (Tue)
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      Lecture 3 Eddies in the atmosphere and ocean
      Phenomenology of baroclinic eddies in ocean and atmosphere, transport properties of eddies. transformed Eulerian Mean and residual circulation.
      
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch, Free discussion
    • 14:00 - 18:00 Excursion, Free discussion
  • Nov 10 (Wed)
    • 09:00 - 12:00
      Lecture 4 The General Circulation without Eddies
      A summary of the circulation in the atmosphere and ocean without baroclinic instability.
    • 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch, Free discussion
    • 14:00 - 17:00
      Lecture 5 Atmospheric Ferrel Cell and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
      Role of large-scale turbulence in these two systems.
    • 17:00 - 18:00 Free discussion

• Nov 11 (Fri): Seminar
  • 09:00 - 11:00
    G. K. Vallis (Princeton Univ.)
    The North Atlantic Oscillation and Annular Modes in the Atmosphere

  Snapshots of the lectures
  
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