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Warwick Turbulence Symposium: Workshop


"Environmental Turbulence from Clouds through the Ocean"

and Theoretical and Computational Issues in Environmental Turbulence

March 13-17, 2006


Joint with EPSRC/UK Platform grant on Turbulence.
Organisers: Ian Castro (Southampton), Darryl Holm (ICL), Robert Kerr (Warwick), Sergey Nazarenko (Warwick), and Christos Vassilicos (ICL)

Summaries
Brief by R. Kerr Detailed by Eyo Ita (ONR and Cambridge)

Timetable

Monday
Day 0
Theoretical and Computational Issues in Environmental Tubulence
11.00-12.30 Registration and lunch
12.30-13.20 C V Tran - St Andrews
Vanishing enstrphy dissipation in 2DNS
13.20-14.10 P Bartello - McGill
Theoretical and computational issues in geophysical turbulence
14.10-15.00 V Zeitlin - Paris
Parametric excitation and nonlinear dynamics of equatorial waves
15.00-15.40 Tea
15.40-16.30 B Dubrulle - Sarclay
A Les-Langevin model for turbulence
16.30-17.20 OPEN
Tuesday
Day 1
Cloud Mixing
9.30-10.30
L Collins - Cornell
Clustering or Particles in Turbulence : Early Cloud Development
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.35
J Hunt - UCL
Turbulence enhanced coalescence of settling particles in rainclouds
11.35-12.35
R Shaw - Michigan Tech
Turbulence and clouds: A measurement perspective
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.35
A Fouxon - Israel
Role of cloud turbulence in the formation of rain
14.35-15.00
B Devenish - Met Office
Acceleration statistics in turbulence
15.00-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.25
S Malinowski - Warsaw
Small-scale mixing in clouds
16.25-17.25 2nd Chances and discussions
Wednesday
Day 2
Wind-Ocean Interactions
9.30-10.30
P K Taylor - Southampton
The structure of the Marine Cloud Topped Boundary Layer
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00
K Melville - Scripps
Wave-Induced Turbulence in the Upper Ocean
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.05
S Belcher - Reading
Wind-Wave Interactions
14.05-14.30
M Stiassnie - Technion
Temporal and spatial growth of wind waves
14.30-14.55
G Levina - Perm, Russia
Theoretical and Experimental Modelling of Intensive Atmospheric Vortices
movie1  movie2
14.55-15.55 Tea
15.55-16.40 Posters:R Kerr and G King
Scaling laws in the tropical marine boundary layer
P.Denissenko, S. Lukashuk and S.Nazarenko
Hull water wave experiments.
E Hascoet
Clustering of inertial particles falling through turbulence
K Spyksma
Moist Turbulence Predictability
C Keylock
Interaction between a turbulent boundary layer, suspended particles and a fence with a fractal structure
16.40-17.30 2nd Chances and discussions
Thursday
Day 3
Upper Ocean Coupling
9.30-10.30
J Marshall - MIT
Mixing and restratification in the upper ocean
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00
J Simpson - Bangor
Measurements and models of turbulence in shelf seas
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.05
A Martin - Southampton
Stirring Vegetable Soup
14.05-14.40
P Berloff - Cambridge
Midlatitude Ocean-Atmosphere Model: Decadal Variability and Dynamics
14.40-15.15
D Acreman - Met Office
Tuning and Validation of Ocean mixed layer models
15.15-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.25
G P King - Lisbon/Warwick
Variability of surface circulation
16.25-17.25 2nd Chances and discussions
Friday
Day 4
Deep Ocean
9.30-10.30
R Hallberg - GFDL
Representing Gravity Current Entrainment in Large-scale Ocean Models
movie1  movie2
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00
S Legg - Princeton
Making practical progress in representing turbulent processes in ocean  
models
movie1  movie2
12.00-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.05
P Korn - Hamburg
Development of an ocean-atmosphere model on icoahedral grids - the first
steps
14.05-14.40
M Piggott - Imperial
Modelling environmental flows at a range of scales using adaptive methods
14.40-15.05
V Shrira - Keele
Non-traditional" Coriolis terms and mixing in the deep ocean
15.05-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 2nd Chances and discussions