Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Stratified Turbulence

Presentations

• Instability of Stratified Shear Flow: Intermittency and Length Scales

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 4:05 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Ecke

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Philippe Odier

    • ENS Lyon
    • Phys-ENS, Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon

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• Baroclinic Critical Layers and the Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) in Stratified, Rotating Shear Flows: Where They Form and Why

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 4:18 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 4:31 PM

  Authors

  • Meng Wang

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Patrick Huerre

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Chung-Hsiang Jiang

    • U.C. Berkeley
    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Suyang Pei

    • U.C. Berkeley
    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Maryann Rui

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Philip Marcus

    • U.C. Berkeley
    • University of California Berkeley
    • UC Berkeley
    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Spontaneous layer formation dynamics in stratified Taylor--Couette flow

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 4:31 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 4:44 PM

  Authors

  • Colin Leclercq

    • University of Bristol

  • Jamie L. Partridge

    • DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • Pierre Augier

    • LEGI (Grenoble), CNRS

  • C.P. Caulfield

    • BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • Paul Linden

    • Cambridge Univ.
    • DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

  • Stuart B. Dalziel

    • University of Cambridge
    • DAMTP, University of Cambridge

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• Energy and water vapor transport in a turbulent stratified environment

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 4:44 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 4:57 PM

  Authors

  • Luca Gallana

    • Politecnico di Torino
    • Politecnico di Torino, Dimeas

  • francesca de santi

    • Politecnico di Torino, DIMEAS

  • Michele Iovieno

    • Politecnico di Torino, DIMEAS
    • Politecnico di Torino, Dimeas

  • renzo richiardone

    • Universita' degli Studi di Torino

  • Daniela Tordella

    • Politecnico di Torino, DIMEAS
    • Politecnico di Torino, Dimeas

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• Layering from anticyclonic vortices in a rotating stratified medium with combined salinity and temperature effects

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 4:57 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 5:10 PM

  Authors

  • Joel Sommeria

    • LEGI/CNRS

  • M.J. Burin

    • LEGI/CNRS
    • CSU San Marcos

  • Samuel Viboud

    • LEGI/CNRS

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• Turbulent mixing due to Holmboe wave instability in stratified shear flows at high Reynolds numbers

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 5:10 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 5:23 PM

  Authors

  • Hesam Salehipour

    • University of Toronto

  • C. P. Caulfield

    • BPI \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, U. of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • Cambridge University
    • BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • W. Richard Peltier

    • University of Toronto
    • Physics, U. of Toronto

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• Mixing efficiency dependence on overturning and turbulence intensity in stratified shear layers

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 5:23 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 5:36 PM

  Authors

  • C. P. Caulfield

    • BPI \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, U. of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • Cambridge University
    • BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • Ali Mashayek

    • MIT
    • EAPS, MIT

  • W. Richard Peltier

    • University of Toronto
    • Physics, U. of Toronto

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• Biases in Thorpe scale estimates of turbulence dissipation

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 5:36 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 5:49 PM

  Authors

  • Alberto Scotti

    • Dept. of Marine Sciences, UNC-CH
    • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    • Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

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• An analysis of diapycnal mixing efficiency in stably stratified turbulent flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 5:49 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 6:02 PM

  Authors

  • Amrapalli Garanaik

    • Colorado State University

  • Subhas Karan Venayagamoorthy

    • Colorado State University

  • Derek Stretch

    • University of KwaZulu-Natal

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• The Efficiency of Deep and Abyssal Ocean Turbulent Mixing

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 6:02 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 6:15 PM

  Authors

  • Ali Mashayek

    • MIT
    • EAPS, MIT

  • C. P. Caulfield

    • BPI \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • University of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, U. of Cambridge
    • BP Institute \& DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    • Cambridge University
    • BP Institute and DAMTP, University of Cambridge

  • Raffaele Ferrari

    • MIT

  • Maxim Nikurashin

    • University of Tasmania

  • W. Richard Peltier

    • University of Toronto
    • Physics, U. of Toronto

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• Plankton dynamics in thermally-stratified free-surface turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 6:15 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 6:28 PM

  Authors

  • Salvatore Lovecchio

    • University of Udine

  • Alfredo Soldati

    • University of Udine
    • Dept. of Elec. Manag. and Mechanical Engineering, University of Udine, Italy

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• An affordable and accurate conductivity probe for density measurements in stratified flows

  ORAL

  Nov. 23, 2015, 6:28 PM – Nov. 23, 2015, 6:41 PM

  Authors

  • Marco Carminati

    • Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano

  • Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz

    • UC Santa Barbara
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

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