Geophysical: General VI

Presentations

• Mixing efficiency of turbulent stratified flows: Not all flows are created equal

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 1:00 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 1:13 PM

  Authors

  • Alberto Scotti

    • UNC
    • University of North Carolina

  • Brian White

    • UNC

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• Instability Mechanisms in a Stratified and Rotating Shear Layer with Horizontal Shear

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 1:13 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 1:26 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Arobone

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Sutanu Sarkar

    • University of California, San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • UC San Diego
    • Universty of California San Diego
    • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego

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• Transition in Energy Spectra and Vortex Structures in Stably Stratified Turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 1:26 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Yoshifumi Kimura

    • Graduate School of Mathematics, Nagoya University

  • Jackson Herring

    • NCAR

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• Large Eddy Simulations of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in Stratified Ocean Flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 1:39 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 1:52 PM

  Authors

  • Dana Brown

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Louis Goodman

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

  • Mehdi Raessi

    • University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    • University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

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• Instabilities of pancake vortices modelled by rotating ellipsoids in a stratified fluid

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 1:52 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 2:05 PM

  Authors

  • Patrice Meunier

    • IRPHE, Aix Marseille Univ., CNRS, Marseille, France
    • Aix Marseille University

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• Unstable modes of a sheared pycnocline above a stratified layer

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 2:05 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 2:18 PM

  Authors

  • Scott Wunsch

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Kurt Keller

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Inertial instability of oceanic submesoscale vortices: linear analysis, marginal stability criterion and laboratory experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 2:18 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 2:31 PM

  Authors

  • Ayah Lazar

    • Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University and Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique

  • Alexandre Stegner

    • Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, CNRS and Ecole Polytechnique

  • Eyal Heifetz

    • Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University

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• The Easily Excitable Baroclinic Critical Layers in Rotating, Horizontally Shearing, Vertically Stratified Flows and Their Roll-up into Vortices

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 2:31 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 2:44 PM

  Authors

  • Philip Marcus

    • UC Berkeley
    • Berkeley University

  • Suyang Pei

    • UC Berkeley

  • Chung-Hsiang Jiang

    • UC Berkeley

  • Pedram Hassanzadeh

    • UC Berkeley
    • Berkeley University

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• Self-Similar, Self-Replicating, Critical Layers and Vortices in Rotating, Horizontally Shearing, Vertically-Stratified Flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 2:44 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 2:57 PM

  Authors

  • Suyang Pei

    • UC Berkeley

  • Chung-Hsiang Jiang

    • UC Berkeley

  • Philip Marcus

    • UC Berkeley
    • Berkeley University

  • Pedram Hassanzadeh

    • UC Berkeley
    • Berkeley University

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• Turbulence, submesoscales, and the spin down of ocean fronts

  ORAL

  Nov. 20, 2012, 2:57 PM – Nov. 20, 2012, 3:10 PM

  Authors

  • John Taylor

    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge

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