EGS XXV General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2000

OA5. Small and mesoscale ocean processes: - Oral Programme
Attention: The numbers associated with the title of the contributions are the Manuscript Numbers for the Proceedings/Special Issue, the times associated with the names are the start-times of the oral presentations!

Convener: Nurser, A.J.G.
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Wednesday, 26 April 2000
Lecture Room: Clio

Chairperson: Marshall, J.

11:00
-0000		 GARWOOD, R.W.
Thermobaric stability

11:15
-0000		 GASCARD, J-C; ROUAULT, C.; TESTOR, P.
Submesoscale coherent vortices and deep convection in the Greenland Sea

11:30
-0000		 PADILLA-BARBOSA, J.; METAIS, O.
Large Eddy Simulations of Oceanic Deep Convection (Solicited Paper)

12:00
-0000		 MIRONOV, D.
Vertical turbulence structure in convection with rotation: a large-eddy simulation study

12:15
-0000		 HARCOURT, R.R.; STEFFEN, E.L.; GARWOOD JR., R.W.; D'ASARO, E.
Fully Lagrangian floats in Labrador Sea deep convection: comparison of numerical and experimental results

12:30
-0000		 Section/IWG Meetings
Chairperson: Marshall, D.P.

14:30
-0000		 NADIGA, B.T.; GREATBATCH, R.J.
Eddy driven gyres and parameterizations in a simple ocean model

14:45
-0000		 MCDOUGALL, T.J.
Representing unresolved motions in ocean models (Solicited Paper)

15:15
-0000		 NURSER, A.J.G.; LEE, M.-M.; KILLWORTH, P.D.
Relating average isopycnal thickness to average density in an eddying model

15:30
-0000		 HAZELEGER, W.; DRIJFHOUT, S.S.
Eddy mixing of potential vorticity versus mixing in an isopycnic ocean model

15:45
-0000		 MARSHALL, J.; JONES, H.; KARSTEN, R.
Could Ocean Eddies set the Stratification of the Main Thermocline? (Solicited Paper)

16:15
-0000		 BREAK
Chairperson: Hughes, C.W.

16:30
-0000		 ELDEVIK, T.; DYSTHE, K.B.
Generation of spiral eddies at ocean fronts

16:45
-0000		 JUNGCLAUS, J.H.
Instability and eddy formation in oceanic overflows (Solicited Paper)

17:15
-0000		 BOWER, A.; HUNT, H.; PRICE, J.
Mixing and dynamics of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf outflows

17:30
-0000		 DENGLER, M.; QUADFASEL, D.
Abyssal circulation and mixing in the north western Indian Ocean

17:45
-0000		 WILLIAMS, R.G.; ROUSSENOV, V.M.
The influence of boundary mixing on potential vorticity in the ocean interior

18:00
-0000		 BOUCHE, V.
About dense water formation criteria and their application to the Mediterranean Sea

18:15
-0000		 END OF PART I

Thursday, 27 April 2000
Lecture Room: Clio

Chairperson: Nurser, A.J.G.

08:30
-0000		 LUMPKIN, R.; TREGUIER, A.M.; SPEER, K.
Lagrangian Observations of eddy scales in the North Atlantic

08:45
-0000		 LEE, M.-M.
Comparing tracers and particles in an eddy-resolving model