Physical Oceanography Seminars at SIO

--- Previous Seminars Aug 02 - Jul 03 ---

back to coming seminars
 

August 6, 2002 (Tuesday) at 11:00 a.m.
Helen Phillips, WHOI: "Interannual to decadal variability in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean from observations and a global ocean model"

August 28, 2002
Samuel Hormazabal, University of Copenhagen: "Coastal Transition Zone in the Peru-Chile Current System"

September 23, 2002
FALL QUARTER BEGINS

September 25, 2002
Moninya Roughan, IOD/SIO: "Current Driven Upwelling about the separation point of the East Australian Current"

October 2, 2002
Michael Longuet-Higgins, SIO & Institute for Nonlinear Sciences/UCSD, "Standing waves in the ocean"

October 7, 2002 (Monday)
Jonas Nycander, Stockholm University: "Decomposition of the Deacon Cell: Lagrangian analysis of the overturning circulation in the
Southern Ocean"

October 8, 2002 (Tuesday) at 11:00 am
Geoffrey Vallis, GFDL/Princeton University: "Structure of the thermocline: subduction, diffusion and eddies"

October 9, 2002
Clive Dorman, CCS/SIO: "Hydraulic Aspects of California's Summer Marine Layer"

October 16, 2002
Vitalii Sheremet, WHOI: "Laboratory model of tilted convection in Labrador Sea"

October 23, 2002
Kurt Polzin, WHOI: "An analytic derivation of the Garrett and Munk spectrum"

October 30, 2002
Alexander Soloviev, Nova Southeastern University: "Observation of Wave-Enhanced Turbulence in the Near-Surface
Layer of the Ocean During TOGA COARE" (in collaboration with Roger Lukas)

November 6, 2002
Warren White, PORD/SIO: "Thermodynamics of Annual Coupled Rossby Waves"

November 13, 2002
Owen Phillips, Johns Hopkins University: "From parasitic capillaries to Rogue Waves; tales from the ocean's upper boundary"

November 20, 2002
Judith Wells, WHOI, "A laboratory study of localized boundary mixing in a rotating stratified fluid"

November 27, 2002
No seminar because Thanksgiving is on November 28.

December 4, 2002
Jen MacKinnon, CCS/SIO: "Coastal recipes: A new hope for understanding turbulence when the waves are large,
the boundaries are close, and the mixing is above average"

December 11, 2002 Special Joint PORD/CRD Seminar
David Randall, Colorado State University, "General circulation modeling with a geodesic grid and isentropic coordinates"

December 14, 2002

January 22, 2003
Wilbert Weijer, PORD/SIO, "Oscillations of the Global Ocean Circulation"

January 29, 2003 Joint PORD/COMPAS Seminar
Simon Tett, Met Office, Hadley Centre, Climate Prediction and Research, "Observations of historical climate
variability and change, their application to testing the climate models and the use of paleo-climate data to test models"

February 12, 2003
Dean Roemmich, PORD/SIO, "The Future of Climate Observations in the Global Ocean (and implications for academic scientists like us)"

February 19, 2003
Andrew Hogg, Southampton, "Low-Frequency Midlatitude Climate Variability in a Quasi-Geostrophic Model"

February 26, 2003
Janet Sprintall, SIO/PORD, "Upper Ocean Variability in the Drake Passage"

March 5, 2003
Larry Pratt, WHOI, "A porous media theory for geostropic flow through complex boundaries"

March 12, 2003
Gwyn Griffiths, Southampton, "Multidisciplinary marine science observations with the Autosub autonomous underwater vehicle"

March 19, 2003
John Gould, SIO/PORD, "From John Swallow to Argo - a personal experience of float development"

March 26, 2003
Jeff Severinghaus, SIO/GRD, "Magnitude of abrupt climate changes from ice core thermometry"

April 2, 2003
Mary-Louise Timmermans, WHOI, "The deep water in the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean"

April 16, 2003
Gudrun Magnusdottir, UC Irvine, "The modeled atmospheric response to multidecadal trends in the SST and sea ice in the North Atlantic"

April 23, 2003
Lynne Talley, SIO/PORD, "WOCE and Pacific Circulation"

May 1, 2003 !!Thursday!! Joint PORD/COMPAS Seminar
Sergey Kravtsov, UCLA, "Eddy-driven coupled modes of midlatitude climate variability"

May 7, 2003
Alex Hall, UCLA Dep't of Atmopsheric Sciences, "What Controls the Amplitude and Phase of the Extratropical Seasonal Cycle?"

May 14, 2003
Sarah Gille, SIO/PORD, "Decadal-Scale Temperature Variability in the Southern Ocean"

May 20, 2003 Sumner-Auditorium, 1pm (Public Lecture)
Mark Cane (Cody Award Winner), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, "Predicting El-Nino"

May 21, 2003 Sumner-Auditorium, 3pm (!!Note special place and time!!)
Mark Cane (Cody Award Winner), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, "Tropical-Extratropical Interactions in the Pacific"

May 28, 2003
Juergen Theiss, SIO/PORD, "Equatorward energy cascade, zonal flows and the predominance of cyclonic vortices in geostrophic turbulence"

May 29, 2003 !!Thursday!!
Walter Munk, SIO/IGPP, "Tales of the Venerable Honolulu Tide Gauge"

June 4, 2003 Joint PORD/COMPAS Seminar
Jennifer MacKinnon, SIO/CCS, "Missing mixing or missing physics: the evolution of internal waves over rough topography"

June 11, 2003
Detlef Stammer, SIO/PORD, "Ocean mixing inferred from satellite and insitu data"

June 18, 2003
Peter Niiler, SIO/PORD, "How Ocean Currents determine the Sea Level"



back to coming seminars