Workshop on Sub-mesoscale Ocean Processes

June 11 - 14, 2013, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Stewart Library

Schedule

Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
09:45 to 10:45	Strain-driven submesoscale frontogenesis : what can surface currents tell us about what is happening below? Cédric Chavanne, l'Université du Québec à Rimouski
10:45 to 11:30	Potential enstrophy in stratified turbulence Michael Waite, University of Waterloo
11:30	Instabilities of coupled density fronts and their nonlinear evolution in the two-layer rotating shallow water model. Influence of the lower layer and of the topography Vladimir Zeitlin, Ecole Normale Supérieure
14:20 to 15:10	Spectral characteristics of a turbulent, homogeneous wind-driven gyre flow Francis Poulin, University of Waterloo
15:10	Some experiments on dissipation of balanced energy in the interior Balu Nadiga, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
09:00 to 09:45	A numerical study of lateral dispersion in a field of oceanic internal waves Pascale Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates
09:45 to 10:45	Focussing and normal mode scattering of the first mode internal tide by mesoscale eddy interaction Michael Dunphy, University of Waterloo
10:45 to 11:35	The influence of mesoscale, surface intensified eddies of the Arabian Sea and adjacent gulfs, on the RSW and PGW outflows Xavier Carton, Université de Bretagne Occidentale
11:35	From Quasigeostrophic to stratified turbulence Peter Bartello, McGill University
14:20	Invigoration of cumulus cloud fields by mesoscale ascent Daniel Kirschbaum, McGill University

Thursday, June 13th, 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Eddy-modulated, superinertial turbulence Rob Scott, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Université de Bretagne Occidentale
09:45 to 10:45	Scales of horizontal density structure in the surface layer of the Arctic Ocean Mary-Louise Timmermans, Yale University
10:45 to 11:30	Influence of forced near-inertial motion on nearly geostrophic flow in a recirculating zonal channel David Straub, McGill University
11:30	Simulations of coherent structures in ocean frontal zones and effects on dye dispersion Eric Skyllingstad, Oregon State University
14:20	Toward out-of-balance surface dynamics in the ocean Gualtiero Badin, University of Hamburg

Friday, June 14th, 2013
09:00 to 09:45	Near-inertial waves within an anticyclonic eddy and turbulence in the Mediterranean sea during BOUM experiment Pascale Lelong, NorthWest Research Associates
09:45 to 10:45	Extending the Validity of a One-Dimensional Coupled Bio-physical Model by Parametrization Susan Allen, University of British Columbia
10:45 to 11:30	A surface-aware projection basis for quasigeostrophic flow Jacques Vanneste, University of Edinburgh
11:30	Inertial-centrifugal instability of intense anticyclonic vortices : linear stability analysis, laboratory experiments and oceanic observations Alexandre Stegner, Ecole Polytechnique

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