Physical Oceanography Seminars at SIO

Seminars are held at 3:30 pm, with refreshments at 3:15 pm, on Wednesdays in Nierenberg Hall 101 unless otherwise indicated.

For more information, please contact Jeff Polton ( Tel: 858 8224061).

September 18, 2006
FALL QUARTER BEGINS

September 27, 2006
Lisa Beal, RSMAS/MPO, Miami:
"Is interleaving in the Agulhas Current driven by near-inertial velocity perturbations?"

October 11, 2006
Ivana Cerovecki, MIT:
"Eddy transport and mixing in a wind and buoyancy driven jet on the sphere."

October 18, 2006
Lynne Talley, PORD/SIO:
"Antarctic Intermediate Water and Subantarctic Mode Water formation observed."

October 25, 2006
Xavier Capet, UCLA:
"The transition from mesoscale to submesoscale in the California Current System."

TUESDAY November 7, 2006
CRD seminar: Simon de Szoeke (University of Hawaii)

November 15, 2006
Julie McClean PORD/SIO:
"Towards a Fine Resolution Community Climate System Model (CCSM)."

TUESDAY November 21, 2006
CRD seminar: Vasubandhu Misra, COLA

November 22, 2006
Thanksgiving Eve

TUESDAY November 28, 2006
CRD seminar: Luc Rainville, WHOI

November 29, 2006
Bernadette Sloyan, CSIRO:
"Climate Impacts of Subantarctic Mode Water and Antarctic Intermediate Water: Pathways to a better understanding."

December 6, 2006
Christopher Wolfe, PORD/SIO:
"Disturbance Growth and Predictability in a Time-Periodic System."

January 24, 2007
Peter Gay, PORD/SIO:
"Salt transport in partially mixed estuaries"

January 31, 2007
Yue-Kin Tsang, PORD/SIO:
"Two-dimensional turbulence with drag"

February 7, 2007
Takamasa Tsubouchi Dept. Geophysics, Tohoku Uni, Japan:
"Detailed spatial structure of the South Pacific subtropical mode water and comparison study of subtropical mode waters in the world oceans"

February 14, 2007
Amala Mahadevan Dept. Earth Sciences, Boston Uni.:
"Fronts, upwelling and biology"

February 21, 2007
Kathleen Dohan PORD/SIO:
"Mixing in the Transition Zone During Two Storm Events"

February 28, 2007
William Kessler PMEL/NOAA:
"The annual cycle of circulation in the southwest subtropical Pacific, diagnosed in an OGCM".Abstract

March 7, 2007
Carl Gibson MAE/UCSD:
"Turbulence in Natural Fluids: Oceanographic Applications"Abstract
GRL pdf, JAFM pdf, IJDF pdf


March 29, 2007
SPRING QUARTER BEGINS

Tuesday April 3, 2007 CRD/PORD joint seminar
Philip Sura CIRES/Colorado Uni.:
"A global view of non-Gaussian SST variability"

April 11, 2007 CRD/PORD joint seminar
George Kiladis NOAA ESRL/Boulder:
"Organization of mesoscale convection within equatorial waves"

April 18, 2007

April 25, 2007
Falk Feddersen IOD/SIO:
"Observations of the Turbulent Dissipation Rate in the Surfzone and Nearshore"

May 2, 2007
Matthias Lankhorst PORD/SIO:
"Analyses of the Circulation in Intermediate and Shallow Water Masses of the Northeastern Atlantic with Lagrangian and Profiling Methods".Abstract

May 9, 2007

May 16, 2007

May 23, 2007

May 30, 2007
Matthew Spydell IOD/SIO:
"Lagrangian Dispersion in the Surfzone"

June 6, 2007
Victor Zlotnicki JPL:
"GRACE gravity, ocean bottom pressure, and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current"

June 13, 2007
Claudia Pasquero UC Irvine:
"Upper ocean warming and tropical cyclones"

June 15, 2007
SPRING QUARTER ENDS


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