Organisers:JCR Hunt (UK Meteorological Office), ME McIntyre (Cambridge), J Norbury (Oxford), I Roulstone (UK Meteorological Office)

Monday 9 Sept

9.30 - 10.30 R Samelson (WHOI)
A tale of two thermoclines


11.00 - 12.00 R Salmon (Scripps)
Modelling ocean circulation in two space dimensions


2.00 - 3.00 S Hood (Liverpool)
Symmetries, material conservation laws, integrability and GFD


3.30 - 4.15 G Nurser (Southampton)
Stationary shock fronts in a continuously stratified model of the thermocline


4.15 - 5.00 R Williams (Liverpool)
The abyssal ocean circulation --- a potential vorticity view

Tuesday 10 Sept

9.30 - 10.30 P Killworth (Southampton)
Some effects of topography in subpolar gyres


11.00 - 11.30 R MacDonald (UCL)
Intense vortex motion near topography


11.30 - 12.00 S Clarke (UCL)
Finite-amplitude topographically-forced waves on a sheared coastal current


2.00 - 3.00 J Allen (OSU)
Shear instabilities of alongshore currents in the surf zone


3.30 - 4.15 C Tansley (Reading)
Semigeostrophic modelling of the Gulf Stream and its interaction with topography


4.15 - 5.00 E Johnson (UCL)
Low-frequency motion along ridges and coasts

Wendesday 11 Sept

9.30 - 10.30 P Gent (NCAR)
Equation Sets for Non-Eddy-Resolving Ocean Models


11.00 - 11.30 A Treguier (IFREMER)
Evaluating eddy mixing coefficients from eddy resolving ocean models: a simple case study.


11.30 - 12.00 D Marshall (Reading)
Subduction of Water Masses in an Eddying Ocean


2.00 - 3.00 R Hide (Oxford)
Combined effects of rotation, container shape and topological characteristics on barotropic and baroclinic flows


3.30 - 4.00 M.-M Lee (Southampton)
An eddy-resolving study of oceanic tracer transport

POSTERS

A Bacher : ENSO dynamics and seasonal cycle in the tropical Pacific as simulated by the ECHAM4/OPYC3 coupled general circulation model


F Poulin : Arnol'd's second theorem for mesoscale gravity currents within a continuously stratified fluid


M Reszaka : Instability of buoyancy-driven currents

Thursday 12 Sept

9.30 - 10.30 M Ghil (UCLA)
The nonlinear dynamics of the double-gyre circulation: Sub- and interranual variability


11.00 - 12.00 S Meacham (FSU)
Temporal variability in ocean wind-driven circulation models


2.00 - 3.00 G Swaters (Alberta) Nonlinear stability of geostrophic ocean fronts


4.00 - 4.30 R Karsten (Alberta)
Nonlinear stability of geostrophic ocean fronts


4.30 - 5.30 S Legg (UCLA)
Ocean deep convection: the effects of rotation and localisation on turbulent mixing


7.30 - Conference Banquet

Friday 13 Sept

9.30 - 10.30 R Ford (Imperial)
Ocean modelling with realistic topography and simple dynamics


11.00 - 11.30 A Adcroft (UCLA)
Representing Topography in Ocean Models


11.30 - 12.00 M Bell (Met Office)
The influence of vortex stretching on the barotropic streamfunction in ocean general circulation models.


12.00 - 12.30 M Davey (Met Office)
The role of equatorial dynamics in interannual variability

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