Sunday, May 18

10:00 AM-12:00 PM Ballroom II - Level B

MS2
Dynamical System Methods for Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows (Part I of II)

Numerical simulations of atmospheric and oceanic flows are reaching a stage where quantitative comparisons with real data are possible. While this progress constitutes a striking confirmation of the validity of the basic models, like the Primitive Equations, sometimes it falls short of enhancing our understanding of the basic mechanisms at play for certain phenomena. To gain some insight it is still useful to study simpler models that target a specific mechanism expected to be important. It is in this context that dynamical systems methods can be effective. The minisymposium's aim is to provide several examples in this direction.

Organizer: Roberto Camassa
Los Alamos National Laboratory

10:00 Dynamical Systems Theory and Dynamical Oceanography
Roger M. Samelson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:30 Advection Induced by the Breaking of Vorticity Conservation via Viscous Dissipation
Sanjeeva Balasuriya, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; Christopher K. R. T. Jones and Björn Sandstede, Brown University
11:00 Mathematical Problems in the Theory of Shallow Water
Marcel Oliver, University of California, Irvine
11:30 Inverse Scattering Analysis of Internal Waves in the Andaman Sea
A. R. Osborne, University of Torino, Italy

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