Fluid Dynamics in Earth and Planetary Sciences (FDEPS)
  8th FDEPS workshop Spring Special
  Mar 27 - Mar 31, 2006
  Marine Hill Hotel Otaru 

Eighth FDEPS Workshop

• Date :
  Mar 27 - 31, 2006

• Support :
  Hokkaido University / Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
  "Initiatives for Attractive Education in Graduate Schools"
  http://www.sci.hokudai.ac.jp/grp/initiative/initiative-web/src/top_e.html
  http://www.jsps.go.jp/j-initiative/

• Place :
  Marine Hill Hotel Otaru
  Asarigawa Onsen 1-112-1, Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
  TEL: +81-0134-52-2929, FAX: +81-0134-54-3525
  https://www.sempos.or.jp/otaru_e/

Program

• Mar 23 (Thu) Special Lecture

  Is there really a basis for global warming alarm?

• Mar 28 (Tue) - Mar 30 (Thu): Intensive Lecture Series and Free Discussion
  Richard S. Lindzen (MIT)
  

  Wave geometry, shear instability, the Kelvin-Orr mechanism, and wave-convection interaction in the tropics.

  • 03/27 (Mon)
    • Night:
      Reception, Dinner
  • 03/28 (Tue)
    • Morning:
      Lecture 1 "Introduction: Waves and instabilities, linear and nonlinear."
      Lecture 2 "Preliminary notes: Internal waves (1)"
    • Afternoon:
      Lecture 3 "Preliminary notes: Internal waves (2)"
    • Night:
      Free discussion
  • 03/29 (Wed)
    • Morning:
      Lecture 4 "Preliminary notes: Internal waves (3)"
      Lecture 5 "Instability of plane parallel shear flow"
    • Afternoon:
      Lecture 6 "Shear instability and wave overreflection."
    • Night:
      Free discussion
  • 03/30 (Thu)
    • Morning:
      Lecture 7 "Nonlinear evolution of growing Rossby waves"
      Lecture 8 "Baroclinic adjustment and equilibration"
    • Afternoon:
      Free discussion
    • Night:
      Free discussion
  • 03/31 (Fri)
    • Morning:
      Lecture 9 "The Interaction of Waves and Convection in the Tropics"

Lecture Video List

Snapshots of the lectures

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