Tuesday

Tuesday, June 24th 2014

Session 2:  Meso and Sub-Mesoscale Turbulence  9h - 13h

Conveners:  Shafer Smith (Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York, USA)

                    Anne-Marie Tréguier (Laboratoire de Physique des Océans, Brest, France)

09:00

Xavier Capet

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

Impact of submesoscale fronts in the ocean: recent progress and enduring challenges

09:30

Rosmary Morrow

Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France

Resolving small-scale ocean dynamics from altimetry & the future SWOT mission

09:50

Brian Arbic

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Michigan,USA

Towards an internal wave spectrum in global ocean models

10:10

Bertrand Chapron

Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer, Plouzané, France

Detailing the upper ocean-atmosphere couplings from Space

10:30

Hideharu Sasaki

Earth Simulator Center, Yokohama, Japan

Impact of oceanic scale-interactions on the seasonal modulation of ocean dynamics by the atmosphere

10:50

          Coffee Break

           Coffee Break

11:20

Marie Farge

Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

Production of dissipative vortices by solid bodies in incompressible fluid flows: comparison between Prandtl, Navier-Stokes and Euler solutions

11:40

Gualtiero Badin

Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg, Germany

The role of short-wave instabilities on geostrophic turbulence is studied in a simplified model consisting of three layers in the quasi-geostrophic approximation

12:00

Hidenori Aiki

Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan

Reduction of sampling errors using a phase-independent expression for energy flux associated with inertia-gravity wave

12:20

Adrian Martin

National Oceanography Center, Southampton, UK

The Challenges of Life at the Mesoscale and Submesoscale

12:40

Marina Levy

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

Oceanic mesoscale turbulence drives large biogeochemical interannual variability at mid and high latitudes

Session 3:  Stirring and Mixing in the Ocean  14h30 - 18h

Conveners:  Peter Haynes (Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, UK)

                    Guillaume Lapeyre (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France)

14:30

Guillaume Lapeyre

Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France

Stirring and mixing of active and passive tracers in the atmosphere and ocean

15:00

K. Shafer Smith

Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science, New York, USA

Submesoscale stirring by balanced and unbalanced flows

15:30

Peter H. Haynes

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, UK

What limits horizontal scales of oceanic tracer filaments?

15:50

Alexandre Stegner     

Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France

replaces

Joe Lacasce

University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway

 Meso and sub meso scale dynamics of coastal current along a steep shelf bathymetry.

Relative dispersion in the atmosphere

16:10

          Coffee Break

            Coffee Break

16:40

Daniel Schertzer

Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France

Quasi-geotrosphic approximation and a fractional vorticity equation

17:00

Joël Sommeria

Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l’Environnement, CNRS, Grenoble, France

Mixing in a stably stratified fluid: statistical mechanics predictions compared with laboratory experiments

17:20

Remy Tailleux

University of Reading, Reading, UK

Molecular control of turbulent diapycnal mixing in the ocean thermocline

17:40

Pascale Bouruet-Aubertot

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France

Parameterization of energy dissipation and turbulent mixing in the Indonesian Throughflow from INDOMIX experiment

Poster Session 18h - 19h30

18:00 - 19:30

Large and mesoscale interactions at mid-latitude

Meso and Sub-Mesoscale Turbulence