Fluid Dynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences (FDEPS)
18th FDEPS workshop, Dec. 1 - 4, 2015 at Kansai Seminar House

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Eighteenth Workshop "Fluid Dynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences"

Date:

Dec. 1 - 4, 2015

Co-organizer:

• Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University
• Center for Planetary Science (CPS), Kobe University

Place:

Kansai Seminar House
23 Takenouchi-cho, Ichijojii, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8134 JAPAN
Phone:+81-75-711-2115 FAX:+81-75-701-5256

Program

• Dec. 1 (Tue) - Dec. 4 (Fri) Intensive Lecture Series and Free Discussion

  Dynamics of geophysical vortices and jets

  Professor Glenn Flierl Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, USA
  

  • 12/1(Tue.)
    • 09:00 - 12:00 lecture 1-a lecture 1-b lecture 1-c lecture 1-d lecture 1-e lecture 1-f PDF document
      Lecture 1: Review of geophysical fluid dynamics
      • Basic approximations
      • Vertical structures
      • Quasi-geostrophy
      • Non-QG effects
      • Contour dynamics
    • 14:00 - 17:00 lecture 2-a lecture 2-b lecture 2-c PDF document
      Lecture 2: Hamiltonian methods for finding equilibria and nonlinear stability
      • Hamiltonian formulation of equations
      • Casimir invariants
      • QG and contour dynamics
      • Stability
      • Equilibria - synthetic annealing and Dirac constraints
    • Evening : Free discussion
  • 12/2(Wed.)
    • 09:00 - 12:00 lecture 3-a lecture 3-b lecture 3-c lecture 3-d PDF document
      Lecture 3: Vortices - structure and propagation
      • Gulf Stream and Kuroshio rings (and others)
      • Cyclo-geostrophic balance
      • Beta-gyres
      • Integral constraints
      • Modons
    • Afternoon : Free discussion
    • Evening : Free discussion
  • 12/3(Ths.)
    • 09:00 - 12:00 lecture 4-a lecture 4-b lecture 4-c PDF document
      Lecture 4: Jets - stability and nonlinear stability
      • Gulf Stream, Kuroshio, North Brazil Current, Agulhas Current, ...
      • Meandering
      • Stabilization
      • Ring formation
      • Diagnostics of baroclinic amplification
    • 12:45 - 13:45 discussion
      Discussion: MIT project: CITE, itext and iGlobe
    • 14:00 - 17:00 lecture 5-a lecture 5-b lecture 5-c PDF document
      Lecture 5: Eddies and jets
      • Jovian dynamics
      • Vertical structures
      • Losses via wave radiation
      • Merger processes
    • Evening : Free discussion
  • 12/4(Fri.) Seminar
    • 09:00 - 11:00 seminar 1-a seminar 1-b PDF document
      Research Seminar: Copepod aggregations: influences of physics and collective behavior

Snapshots of the lectures