THEORETICAL ADVANCES IN PLANETARY FLOWS

AND CLIMATE DYNAMICS

2-6 March 2015, Les Houches (France)

Program

Links to the slides of presentations are available on the program below.

Monday

8:30 – 8:45

Introduction

8:45 – 10:15

New planets, new challenges for planetary fluid dynamics
Ray Pierrehumbert (Chicago)

10:15 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:15

Global connections among atmospheric circulations: From the ITCZ, to monsoons, to storm tracks

Tapio Schneider (ETH and Caltech)

12:30 – 14:15

Lunch

14:15 – 14:50

Transport and mixing in the Tropical Tropopause Layer

Bernard Legras (CNRS, LMD, ENS Ulm)

14:50 – 15:25

On the coupling between moisture transport and the large-scale circulation
Tiffany Shaw (Chicago)

15:25 – 15:45

Zonally asymmetric circulations and subtropical hydrologic change in a warming climate
Xavier Levine (Yale)

15:45 -16:05

Single to Double-ITCZ transitions
Tobias Bischoff (Caltech)

16:05 – 16:30

Pause

16:30 – 17:30

Poster Session

17:30 – 17:50

The poleward tilt of storm tracks from a PV tendency analysis of cyclone tracking composites
Talia Tamarin (Weizmann)

17:50 – 18:10

The lifecycle of the North Atlantic storm track
Lenka Novak (Reading)

18:10 – 18:30

An exploration of Saturn’s stratospheric dynamics through Global Climate Modeling
Aymeric Spiga (LMD, UPMC)

18:30 – 18:50

The frontal mountain effect: spontaneous wave generation at strained internal density fronts

Callum Shakespeare (Cambridge)

19:00 – 19:30

Welcome drink

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

 

The timeslot from 16:30 to 17:30 will be devoted to posters. Posters have to be removed at the end of the conference, on Friday. There will be plenty of time to discuss them over the week. They are referenced below.

 

Tuesday

8:30 – 10:00

The deep ocean circulation in present and past climates
Raffaele Ferrari (MIT)

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:05

Eddies and Weddies:  Overturning at the Antarctic margins
Andrew Thompson (Caltech)

11:05 – 11:40

Unraveling the mechanisms of heat and salt transport in
an eddying ocean

Anne Marie Treguier (CNRS, Ifremer)

11:40 – 12:15

Energy backscatter and parametrization of sub-grid scale ocean eddies

Laure Zanna (Oxford)

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 17:15

Break



17:15 – 17:50

Direct statistical simulation of geophysical flows: Taming the curse of dimensionality

Brad Marston (Brown)

17:50 – 18:10

Emergence of large-scale structures in barotropic turbulence
Nikos Bakas (Ionannina)

18:10 -18:30

Slow evolution and bistability of zonal jets in turbulent planetary atmospheres

Tomas Tangarife (ENS Lyon)

18:30 -18:50

The role of closed gyres in setting the zonal transport of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Louis-Philippe Nadeau (MIT)

18:50 – 19:10

Equilibrium stratification at a mixed layer front
Scott Bachman (Cambridge)

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

 

Wednesday

8:30 – 10:00

Stochastic dynamical systems approaches in climate dynamics
Henk Dijkstra (Utrecht)

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:05

Rare event in geophysical fluid dynamics and large deviation theory

Freddy Bouchet (ENS Lyon, CNRS)

11:05 – 11:40

Computing rare events in beta-plane turbulence
Eric Simonnet (CNRS, INLN, Nice)

11:40 – 12:15

Response theory in geophysical fluid dynamics:
climate change prediction and parametrizations
Valerio Lucarini (Hamburg)

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 17:15

Break



17:15 – 17:50

Multifractal intermittency of geophysical turbulence
Daniel Schertzer (Ponts)

17:50 – 18:10

Multi model mixture density estimators & information theory for stochastic filtering and prediction
Michal Branicki (Edinburgh)

18:10 -18:30

Predicting extreme events in fluid turbulence via large deviation minimizers
Tobias Grafke (Courant, NYU)

18:30 -18:50

A recurrence-based technique for detecting genuine extremes in instrumental temperature records
Davide Faranda (CEA, Saclay)

18:50 – 19:10

Spontaneous cascade of geostrophic kinetic energy towards low frequencies: an OGCM study

Guillaume Sérazin (Joseph Fourier)

19:30 – 21:00

Dinner

  

Thursday

8:30 – 10:00

Convective processes, clouds in the climate system, and their spatial organization

Caroline Muller (CNRS, Polytechnique)

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:05

Dual energy cascade in rotating stratified turbulence

Annick Pouquet (NCAR and University of Colorado Boulder)

11:05 – 11:40

Statistical mechanics and the vertical structure of geostrophic turbulence
Antoine Venaille (CNRS, ENS Lyon)

11:40 – 12:15

What can be learned from point vortex models of
two-dimensional turbulence?

Gavin Esler (UCL)

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 17:15

Break



17:15 – 17:50

Formation of the potential vorticity staircase in forced and freely decaying turbulence

Richard Scott (St-Andrews)

17:50 – 18:10

The latitudinal dependence of jet spacing and macroturbulent energy cascades in the atmosphere
Rei Chemke
(Weizmann)

18:10 -18:30

Universal profile of the vortex condensate in two-dimensional turbulence

Jason Laurie (Weizmann)

18:30 -18:50

Vortices and waves in the energy cascade of geophysical turbulence

Corentin Herbert (Weizmann)

18:50 – 19:10

Wave-vortex decomposition of one-dimensional ship and aircraft observations

Jörn Callies (MIT)

19:30 – 21:00

Banquet – Savoyard dinner

  

Friday

8:30 – 9:05

Interactions between near-inertial waves and mesoscale motion in the ocean
Jacques Vanneste (Edinburgh)

9:05 – 9:40

Turbulence and mixing at ocean fronts
John Taylor (Cambridge)

9:40 – 10:00

Parametrizing subgrid-scale eddy effects using energetically consistent backscatter
Malte Jansen (Chicago)

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 – 11:05

A novel approach to quantifying mixing by ocean eddies from observations

Emily Shuckburgh (British Antarctic Survey)

11:05 – 11:40

A geometric framework for interpreting and parameterising ocean geostrophic eddies
David Marshall (Oxford)

11:40 – 12:15

Shallow-water dynamics at large Froude number

James Cho (Queen Mary)

 

12:15 – 13:30

Lunch

 

 

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