Schedule for: 18w5119 - Modelling Imbalance in the Atmosphere and Ocean

Beginning on Sunday, February 18 and ending Friday February 23, 2018

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).

Sunday, February 18
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110))
Monday, February 19
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast
Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Raffele Ferrari: Identifying balanced flow and internal waves in atmospheric and oceanic observations (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Dale Durran: The impact of mountain waves on an idealized baroclinically unstable large-scale flow (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Oliver Fringer: Nonlinearity and unsteadiness in deep-ocean lee waves (TCPL 201)
11:50 - 12:00 Group Photo
Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo!
(TCPL Foyer)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Bruce Sutherland: Flows induced by internal waves and their influence upon breaking heights (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Sonya Legg: Internal tides at rough topography: impact of Coriolis and topographic steepness on energy transfer to near-inertial waves and dissipation (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 David Straub: Stimulated loss of balance and the wave-vortex decomposition (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Greg Chini: Multiscale Modeling of Strongly Stratified Shear Turbulence (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Richard Rotunno: Anatomy of the Lee-Side Hydraulic Jump (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Gergely Bölöni: Towards a transient gravity wave drag parameterization in atmospheric models (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner
A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building.
(Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, February 20
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Riwal Plougonven: Constraining parameterizations of gravity waves in climate models. (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Laura Holt: Gravity wave sources in the Southern Hemisphere in a global mesoscale model (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Brian Arbic: Global modeling of internal tides and the internal gravity wave continuum spectrum (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
11:30 - 12:00 Mark Schlutow: Stability of finite-amplitude gravity waves in the atmosphere (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Caitlin Whalen: Observations of Mixing from Wind-Driven Internal Waves in an Energetic Mesoscale (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Hesam Salehipour: Self-Organized Criticality of turbulence in the strongly stratified mixing layer (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Oliver Buhler: Decoding the wave—vortex—turbulence puzzle (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 David Fritts: Modeling mechanisms of secondary gravity wave and acoustic wave generation (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Gregory Wagner: Dynamics and dispersion in barotropic turbulence modified by internal tides (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, February 21
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Pascale Lelong: Disentangling unbalanced and balanced dynamics in submesoscale lateral dispersion (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Cat Vreugdenhil: The Effects of Convection in Geostrophic Circulation (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Ulrich Achatz: Beyond Traditional Limits of Gravity-Wave Parameterizations: Unbalanced Mean Flows (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
19:30 - 22:00 Downtown social (location TBA) (TCPL 201)
Thursday, February 22
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Richard Peltier: Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Mixing: Episodic Imbalance of the MOC (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Eric Kunze: Spontaneous Generation and Re-absorption of Internal Waves in a Kuroshio Front Simulation (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Qi Zhou: Strongly stratified turbulence in geophysical wakes (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:30 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
11:30 - 12:00 Steffen Hien: Spontaneous inertia-gravity wave emission in the differentially heated rotating annulus experiment (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Shaun Johnston: Wake eddies (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Hossein Kafiabad: Quantification of spontaneous imbalance in rotating stratified turbulence (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Rob Pinkel: The end (?) of the cascade: Quantifying the presence of small vertical scale QG and internal wave motions in the Pacific Ocean. (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 David Randall: Trickle Up (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:00 Kat Smith: The Global Impact of Subgrid-Scale Langmuir Turbulence and Upper Ocean Carbonate Chemistry (TCPL 201)
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, February 23
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Jacques Vanneste: Spontaneous and Stimulated Internal Wave Generation (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Henrike Wilms: Strong turbulence encountered by the HALO research aircraft: Analysis of Large Eddy Simulations and aircraft in-situ data (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 Jody Klymak: Non-propagating Form Drag and Turbulence Due to Stratied Flow over Large-scale Abyssal Hill Topography (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 12:00 Checkout by Noon
5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon.
(Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion and wrap-up (TCPL 201)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)