EGS XXVI General Assembly, Nice, France, March 2001

NP10. Jets and vortices (co-sponsored by OA): - Oral Programme

Convener(s): Ford, R.
Co-Convener(s): Sutyrin, G.
Co- Sponsorship:

Thursday, 29 March 2001
Lecture Room: Gallieni 6

Chairperson: N.N.

14:30
 HUERRE, P.
Noise Amplification and Hydrodynamic Resonances in Shear Flows (Solicited Paper)

15:00
 SUTYRIN, G.; FROLOV, S.; GINIS, I.
Stabilization of a Baroclinic Jet over Topography

15:15
 NYCANDER, J.
Topographic destabilisation of shear flow

15:30
 GRIMSHAW, R.H.J.; SKYRNNIKOV, Y.
Weakly nonlinear, long wave instability of a three-layer stratified shear flow

15:45
 BORTH, H.; GRYANIK, V.; OLBERS, D.
Von Karman-type vortex streets and jets on a 2-layer beta-plane: classification, energetics and flow topology

16:00
 BREAK
Chairperson: N.N.

16:30
 PELTIER, W.R.; POTYLITSIN, P.
Three-Dimensionalization of Columnar Vortex Arrays

16:45
 Gourlay, M.J.
Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Wakes

17:00
 SOMMERIA, J.; CHAVANIS, P.H.
Jets and vortices as statistical mechanic equilibria of the shallow water system

17:15
 BONNETON, N.; SOUS, D.
Vortex dynamics in a shallow water layer

17:30
 DAVIES, H.C.; DIRREN, S.; SCHWIERZ, C.
Jet-Vortex Interaction

17:45
 CARTON, X.; VAN DER MEIRSCH, F.; MOREL, Y.
Interaction of surface-intensified jet and vortex

18:00
 OSBORNE, A.R.; ONORATO, M.; SERIO, M.
The Search for Oceanic Rogue Waves

18:15
 END OF PART I
18:15-20:00 Poster Viewing

Friday, 30 March 2001
Lecture Room: Gallieni 6

Chairperson: N.N.

08:30
 LEE, S.
On the relationship between subtropical and eddy-driven jets

08:45
 YAMAMORI, M.; SATO, K.
Quasi-geostrophic analyses on medium-scale tropopausal waves: structure and a source of wave-activity

09:00
 GORDIENKO, S.N.; MOISEEV, S.S.; PUNGIN, V.G.
Peculiarities of influence of inhomogeneity on vortices and jets: stationarity, transitional states, intermittency

09:15
 DRITSCHEL, D.G.; KOUDELLA, C.R.
The structure of nearly-inviscid quasi-geostrophic turbulence (Solicited Paper)

09:45
 COLETTE, A.; BILLANT, P.; BEAUDOIN, B.; BOULAY, J.C.; LASSUS-PIGAT, S.; NICLOT, C.; SCHAFFNER, H.; CHOMAZ, J.M.
Rotation effects on the dynamic of a columnar vortex pair in a strongly stratified fluid

10:00
 ELDEVIK, T.
Variable-temperature layer models: No (or all) bad weather?

10:15
 BRACCO, A.; VON HARDENBERG, J.; MCWILLIAMS, J.C.; PROVENZALE, A.; SHCHEPETKIN, A.; WEISS, J.
Lagrangian transport properties in quasi-geostrophic turbulence

10:30
 BREAK
Chairperson: N.N.

11:00
 VALLIS, G.K.; HELD, I.; BOCCALETTI, G.; CARTWRIGHT, C.; GRIANIK, N.; MARINOV, I.; SMITH, K.S.; TAM, C.Y.
Tracer transport and inverse cascades in generalized two-dimensional turbulence

11:15
 GRYANIK, V.M.
The upper bound for lateral heat transport: Ballistic vortex-dominated stirring versus mixing

11:30
 LEONCINI, X.; KUZNETSOV, L.; ZASLAVSKY, G.M.
Influence of structures on advection for flows of three point vortices

11:45
 WILLIAMS, P.D.; READ, P.L.; HAINE, T.W.N.
Interactions of `Fast' and `Slow' modes in rotating, stratified flows

12:00
 ZEITLIN, V.
Nonlinear semigeostrophic adjustment in 1d rotating shallow water model

12:15
 BEN JELLOUL, M.N; PLOUGONVEN, R.; ZEITLIN, V.
Deformation frontogenesis without filtering inertia-gravity waves: a barotropic jet example

12:30
 FORD, R.; DRITSCHEL, D.G.
Radiation of inertia-gravity waves by a front

12:45
 BUEHLER, O.; MCINTYRE, M.E.
Remote recoil: a new wave-vortex interaction effect

13:00
 LUNCH
Chairperson: N.N.

14:00
 BUEHLER, O.; JACOBSON, TIVON, E.
Wave-driven currents and vortex dynamics on barred beaches

14:15
 Centurioni, L.R.
Dynamics of vortices over a planar sloping beach

14:30
 MONTGOMERY, M.T.; VLADIMIROV, V.A.; DENISSENKO, P.V.
An experimental examination of hurricane mesovortices: flow apparatus in PIV measurements

14:45
 FRUEH, W.-G.
Structure of sustained barotropic vortices in a shear flow

15:00
 KIMURA, Y.; HERRING, J.R.
Gradient enhancement and filament ejection for non-uniform elliptic vortex

15:15
 SATIJN, M.P.; BUREN, M.G.VAN; CLERCX, H.J.H.; HEIJST, G.J.F.VAN
Vortex models based on similarity solutions of the diffusion equation