Climate & Fluid Physics Seminar Tues pm
The Climate and Fluid Physics Group holds occasional seminars. Often (but not always) these seminars are held on a Tuesday afternoon in the Hales Room. Please contact us to be added to the mailing list.
No events are currently scheduled.
Past events
26
Sep
2019
Some unique experiments using particle image velocimetry of high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows - Julio Soria (Monash) »
Some unique experiments using particle image velocimetry of high Reynolds number wall-bounded flows
23
Sep
2019
Internal wave dynamics on the Australian Northwest Shelf (NWS) - Nicole L Jones »
Nicole's presentation will overview recent studies including interaction of internal tides on the slope and shelf, wave trains, and near-bed instabilities.
16
Aug
2019
A Royal Australian Navy perspective on operational oceanography »
This presentation will focus on showing Scott's experience on operational oceanography as a METOC in the Navy.
19
Jul
2019
Sediment driven convection below river plumes: implications to deposition patterns in lakes and estuaries »
In this talk I will describe how the process of convective sedimentation could greatly increase vertically settling rates, and how this process determines that length and time-scales over which deposition can occur.
26
Feb
2019
The future of ocean modelling - Markus Jochum (U. of Copenhagen) »
We can only trust current Earth System Models with future
projections if they are able to reproduce past events. I
will use model realizations of glacial inception and Dangaard-
Oeschger events to illustrate what aspects of current ESMs are
trustworthy and which ones need more work. Two...
12
Feb
2019
Reframing the carbon cycle of the subpolar Southern Ocean - Graeme MacGilchrist (U. Princeton) »
Global climate is critically sensitive to physical and biogeochemical dynamics in the subpolar Southern Ocean, since this is where the deepest, most carbon-rich layers of the world ocean outcrop and exchange carbon with the atmosphere. Here, we show that the conventional framework for the subpolar Southern Ocean...
30
Nov
2018
An Arctic gateway trigger for Atlantic overturning at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition - David Hutchinson (U. Stockholm) »
An Arctic gateway trigger for Atlantic overturning at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition
The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 Ma ago, is an interval of great interest in Earth’s climate history, due to the inception of the Antarctic ice sheet, major global cooling, and the likely inception...
14
Nov
2018
Scale-aware, energetically consistent techniques for eddy-permitting ocean modelling - Scott Bachman (NCAR) »
Scale-aware, energetically consistent techniques for eddy-permitting ocean modelling
Scott Bachman, National Center for Atmospheric Research (USA)
Abstract:
CMIP-scale ocean models are progressing ever further into a regime where the largest mesoscale eddies are...
13
Nov
2018
Geostrophic turbulence and the formation of large scale structure - Edgar Knobloch (UC Berkeley) »
Abstract:
Low Rossby number convection is studied using an asymptotically reduced system of equations valid in the limit of strong rotation. The equations describe four regimes as the Rayleigh number, Ra increases: a disordered cellular regime near threshold, a regime of weakly interacting convective Taylor...
02
Oct
2018
Bottom topography and oceanic variability - Joe LaCasce (U. Oslo) »
Many fundamental theories of ocean circulation
neglect bottom topography. Indeed, flat bottom ocean basins are
still used today to study a range of phenomena. Here we examine
evidence that the bottom affects eddies throughout the water
column. Current meter data point to the existence...
25
Sep
2018
Antarctic ice sheet dynamics and evolution: a modelling perspective - Felicity McCormack (UTAS) »
Antarctic ice sheet dynamics and evolution: a modelling perspective
Antarctica is a dynamic component of the Earth system, modulating global mean sea levels on timescales of decades to glacial cycles. Here, I discuss the components of the governing equations for ice flow, including recent...
24
Aug
2018
Dedalus Workshop - Geoff Vasil (U. Sydney) »
Join us for a very special Seminar and Workshop exploring Dedalus - A flexible framework for spectrally solving differential equations. Dedalus is used for fluid dynamics research, but can be applied to any initial-value, boundary-value, and eigenvalue problems involving nearly arbitrary equations sets.
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