Physical Oceanography Seminars at SIO

--- Previous Seminars Aug 00 - Jul 01 ---

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Friday, August 4, 2000
Youyu Lu, Dalhousie University, Halifax: "Relaxing the Boussinesq approximation in ocean circulation models"  at 11:00 a.m. in Nierenberg Hall 101.

Wednesday, August 9, 2000
Paolo Cipollini,  Southampton Oceanography Centre: "Oceanic Rossby waves in satellite data: techniques and multisensor observations at the Southampton Oceanography Centre".

Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Rolf Käse, IfM Kiel: "New Measurements in the Denmark Strait Overflow".

Wednesday, September 13, 2000
Jürgen Theiss, SIO: "Hamiltonian Balanced Models".

Monday, September 18, 2000 - special PORD/COMPAS Seminar -
Don Slinn, Florida Atlantic Univeristy: "Along Slope Current Generation Caused by Obliquely Incident Internal Waves on Slopes"

Wedenesday, September 20, 2000 - special PORD/COMPAS Seminar -
Alistair Adcroft, MIT: "Modelling the atmosphere and ocean on the expanded spherical cube".

Thursday, September 21
Sonya Legg , WHOI: "Nonhydrostatic Modeling of Tidal Mixing on the Continental Slope" at 2:30 p.m. in Nierenberg Hall 101.

Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Armin Köhl, SIO: "An Adjoint Method for the Assimilation of Statistical Moments into Eddy Resolving Ocean Models".

Wednesday, October 4, 2000
Paola Cessi, SIO: "Dissipative Selection of Low-Frequency Basin Modes".

Wednesday, October 11, 2000
Jerry Smith, SIO: "Acoustic Measurements of Sea Surface Motion: Movies of Langmuir Circulation, Waves, and Breaking".

Wednesday, October 18, 2000
Kjell Orvik, Geophysical Institute, Universtity of Bergen: "Observations of the Atlantic Inflow into the Northern Seas".

Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Neil Holbrook, Macquarie University, Sydney: "Climatological Changes in the Upper Ocean Thermal Structure of the Southwest Pacific Ocean".

Wednesday, November 1, 2000
Elisabeth Remy, SIO: "Assimilation of Acoustic Tomography Data in an Ocean Model".

Monday, November 6, 2000
Shafer Smith, GFDL: "The Scales, Energies and Vertical Structure of Mid-ocean Eddies:
Theory and Numerical Tests" at 10 a.m. in Nierenberg Hall 101.

Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Niklas Schneider, SIO: "Anatomy of Decadal North Pacific Variability".

Wednesday, November 15, 2000
Maria Flatau, SIO: "On the Role of Intraseasonal Oscillation and Air-Sea Interaction in the Monsoon Onset".

Wednesday, December 6, 2000
Olwijn Leeuwenburgh, SIO: "The Effect of Ocean Currents on Sea Surface Temperature".

Wednesday, December 13, 2000
Andreas Thurnherr, FSU: "Hydrography and Flow in the Rift Valley of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge".

Wednesday, January 31, 2001
Eugene Benilov, University of Limerick: " Barotropic and Baroclinic Instability of Flows over Short-scale Bottom Topography".

Wednesday, February 7, 2001
Stefan Llewellyn Smith, MAE/UCSD: " Vertical Propagation and Horizontal Modulation of Near-inertial Oscillations ".

Wednesday, February 14, 2001
Detlef Stammer, SIO: "Space-Borne Measurements of the Time-Dependent Geostrophic Ocean Flow Field".

Wednesday, February 21, 2001
George Carnevale, SIO: " Overturning in the Oceanic Thermocline Forced by Wave-Wave Interactions ".

Wednesday, February 28, 2001
Sarah Gille, Paul Robbins, both PORD, and Joel Norris, CRD: ongoing work.

Wednesday, March 7, 2001
Glenn Flierl, MIT: "Formation of Eddies and their Source Waters: Applications of Contour Dynamics".

Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Larry Pratt, WHOI: "Is Chaotic Advection Relevant in the Oceans?".

Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Sherwin Maslowe, McGill University: "Nonlinear Waves in Zonal Shear Flows".

Wednesday, March 28, 2001
Lynne Talley, SIO: "Japan (East) Sea Circulation and Water Mass Formation".

Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Tony Westerling, SIO: "El Nino and 100 Years of Storm Surge in the Eastern North Pacific".

Wednesday, April 11, 2001
John Largier, SIO: "CoOP WEST: The role of wind-driven transport in shelf product ivity. Preliminary results and planned fieldwork off northern California".

Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Dietmar Dommenget, SIO: "Seasonal to Decadal SST Variability in the Midlatitudes in Coupled Models and Observations".

Wednesday, April 25, 2001 - Joint PORD/MAE Seminar
Grae Worster, University of Cambridge: "The Fluid Dynamics of Sea Ice ".

Wednesday, May 2, 2001
Robert Pinkel, SIO: "Internal waves in a changing Arctic: recent results from the SHEBA Experiment".

Wednesday, May 9, 2001
Sutanu Sarkar, MAE/UCSD: " Mixing by stratified turbulent shear flows: direct and large eddy simulations "

Wednesday, May 16, 2001
Bulusu Subrahmanyam, FSU: "Heat transports in the Indian Ocean estimated from altimetry and MICOM simulations".

Thursday, May 17, 2001, 4 pm ** special date and time**
Anne Marie Treguier, CNRS/Laboratoire de Physique des Oceans: " On the origin of deep zonal flows in the Brazil Basin ".

Wednesday, May 23, 2001
Dan Rudnick, SIO: "Horizontal variability in the upper ocean".

Wednesday, May 30, 2001
Bernadette Sloyan, PMEL: "Mean Circulation and Upwelling of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean".

Wednesday, June 6, 2001
William Kessler, NOAA/PMEL: " Mean three-dimensional circulation in the northeast tropical Pacific".

Wednesday, June 13, 2001
Xin Zhang, SIO: "Propagation of short wind waves: Observations and Implications".

Wednesday, June 20, 2001
Dave Stevens, University of East Anglia: " The Scotia Sea: Changes and Exchanges".

Wednesday, June 27, 2001 --- Joint IGPP/PORD Seminar ---
Herbert Huppert, University of Cambridge: "Gravity currents:  pyroclastic flows, turbidity currents, lava domes and granular collapses".

Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Harry Bryden, Southampton Oceanography Centre: "Meridional circulation across 32S in the Indian Ocean"
 
 
 



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