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

Meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society Dynamical Problems Group

Wednesday 30th October,
Newton Institute, Clarkson Road, Cambridge, UK

Atmosphere, Ocean and Dynamical Systems

10.45 onwards
Coffee
11.25 Peter Haynes (Cambridge)
Introduction
11.30 Phil Morrison (Texas)
Hamiltonian approach to shear flows
12.00 Robert Mackay (Cambridge)
Transport and mixing in volume-preserving flows
12.30 John Methven (Reading)
Potential vorticity spirals in the atmosphere
13.00 Lunch


14.15 Tom Warn (McGill)
Some statistical properties of decaying 2-d turbulence
14.45 John Brindley (Leeds)
Oceanic plankton dynamics -- an interplay of biological and physical processes
15.15 Mike Davey (Meteorological Office)
ENSO + seasonal resonance = Devil's staircase?
15.45 Tea


16.15 Lenny Smith (Oxford)
Limits to Predictability: Issues, Approaches and Answerable Questions
16.45 Jan Barkmeijer (ECMWF)
Singular vectors and the analysis error metric
17.15 Meeting closes

Organiser: Peter Haynes, DAMTP, Silver Street, Cambridge, CB3 9EW.

Notes:

(i) Registration. There is no formal registration but it will be helpful to know numbers in advance. If you intend coming, please email Alison Harrison.

(ii) Transport. The Isaac Newton Institute is about 20 minutes walk from Cambridge City Centre and 40 minutes walk from Cambridge railway station. There is a regular bus service from the railway station to the City Centre, but the recommended approach is to share taxis from the railway station to the Institute. Some car parking is available at the Institute. For further transport details and a map see the Institute WWW page

(iii) Lunch. A reasonably priced lunch will be available at the Isaac Newton Institute. Please order in advance by emailing Alison Harrison.

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