IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics: Proceedings

Preface. Keynote Lectures. Open boundary conditions: fact and fiction; D. Durran. Paramaterising Eddies in Ocean Climate Models; P. Gent. Boundary Filter Initialization of the HIRLAM Model; P. Lynch, R. McGrath. Balance, potential-vorticity inversion, Lighthill radiation and the slow quasi-manifold; M. McIntyre. Kelvin's theorem and the oceanic circulation in the presence of islands an broken ridges; J. Pedlosky. Contributed Papers. Global and regional atmospheric modelling using spectral elements; F. Baer, et al. Piecewise-constant vortices in a two-layer shallow-water Flow; J.M. Baey, X. Carton. A dynamical stabilizer in the climate system: a mechanism suggested by a simple model and supported by GCM experiments and an observational data study; J.R. Bated, V.A. Alexeev. Waves on the beta-plane over topography; E.S. Benilov. Asymptotic models and application to vortex dynamics; M. Benjelloun, X. Carton. Orographically forced variability in the coastal marine atmospheric boundary layer; S.D. Burk, et al. The influence of thermocline Topography on the oceanic response to fluctuating winds: a case study in the tropical North Pacific; A. Capotondi, M. Alexander. Modelling the dynamics of abyssal equator-crossing currents; P.F. Choboter, G.E. Swaters. Toward accurate coastal ocean prediction; P.C. Chu, et al. Development and Simulation of Atlantic storms during FASTEX; K. Finkele, P. Lynch. Low-order models of atmospheric dynamics with physically sound behaviour; A. Gluhovsky, C. Tong. Models for instability in geophysical flows; R. Grimshaw, G. Gottwald. Baroclinic structure of a modified Stommel - Arons model of the abyssal ocean circulation; P.F. Hodnett, R. McNamara. The available potential energy in a compressible ocean; Rui Xin Huang. The role of bottom pressure torques in the ocean circulation; C.W. Hughes. Quasi-geostrophic potential vorticity for a generalised vertical coordinate formulation and applications; N. Keeley, A.A. White. On the effect of a surface density front on the interior structure of the ventilated thermocline; P. Lionello, J. Pedlosky. Non-hydrostatic barotropic instability; M. Mak. The CSIRO conformal-cubic atmospheric GCM; J.L. McGregor, M.R. Dix. On the origin of helical vortex flow; N. Nawri. Baroclinic instability of bottom-dwelling currents; M.K. Reszka, G.E. Swaters. General properties of baroclinic modons over topography; G.M. Reznik, G.G. Sutyrin. Acoustic filtration in pressure-coordinate models. Basic concepts and applications in non-hydrostatic modelling; R. Rööm, A. Männik. Oscillatory regimes of forced zonal flow; I.A. Sazonov, et al. Improving climate simulations in the tropical oceans; A. Schiller. Synchroneity of the low-frequency planetary wave dynamics and its use to create a model for the numerical monthly weather forecasting; D.M. Sonechkin. Physical mechanisms of nonlinear equilibration of a baroclinically unstable jet over toppographic slope; G.G. Sutyrin, et al. Evolution of near-singular jet modes; G.E. Swaters. Linear Resonance, WKB breakdown, and the coupling of Rossby waves over slowly-varying topography; R. Tailleux, J.C. McWilliams. Nonoscillatory advection schemes with well-behaved adjoints; J. Thuburn, Th.W.N. Haine. A statistical equilibrium model of zonal shears and embedded vortices in a Jovian atmosphere; B. Turkington. The impact of small-scale topography on large-scale ocean dynamics; J. Vanneste. Numerical experiments on intraseasonal and interannual variations of the tropo