Potential vorticity and the impermeability theorem

If you do anything remotely related to GFD, we want to hear from you! This is an informal, student-run reading group. We review classic and current research in the various fields that contribute to GFD to broaden our knowledge outside of our own topics and practice presenting and discussing science in a friendly environment.

Spring 2013

• Wednesday, Apr. 24th at 12:00-1:30
  • Lakshika Girihagama - Heat Content Change in the North Atlantic
  Lozier, M. Susan, et al. "The spatial pattern and mechanisms of heat-content change in the North Atlantic." Science 319.5864 (2008): 800-803.
  • Elizabeth Simons - NONE LIKE IT HOT
  Assessing geoengineering proposals for a rapidly warming world.
• Wednesday, Apr. 17th at 12:00
  • Cory Barton - "The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation"
  • Nof, Doron. "The role of angular momentum in the splitting of isolated eddies." Tellus Series A 42 (1990): 469.
• Wednesday, Apr. 10th at 12:00
  • Joe Schoonover - "Discrete 2D Flow Spectra"
  A discrete model for the spectrum of two-dimensional flow (ref. Salmon, Rick. Lectures on geophysical fluid dynamics. Vol. 378. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.)
  • Young Jiao - "Stommel and Aarons Model"
  The Stommel and Aarons Model of Abyssal Circulation
• Wednesday, Apr. 3rd at 12:00
  • Dhruv Balwada - "Turbulence"
  Types of Turbulence; Methods; Applications
  • Carlowen Smith - "Quasi-geostrophy"
  The QG derivation for all tastes and occasions
• Wednesday, Mar. 27th at 12:00 in Keen 707
  • Meet with Dr. Claudia Cenedese, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  Dr. Cenedese will be visiting GFDI for the week of Mar 25th, and will be meeting with students Wednesday, Mar. 27th in Keen 707 (the top floor seminar room). If you would like pizza, please RSVP to the organizer.
• Wednesday, Mar. 20th at 12:00
  • Nguyen Tam - Modeling DeSoto Canyon with HYCOM
• Wednesday, Mar. 13th - Spring Break
• Wednesday, Mar. 6th at 12:00
  • Jason Callaghan - Using Calculus of Variations in Physical Problems
  • Joe Schoonover - "Integral formulation of bottom following coordinates"
• Wednesday, Feb. 27th at 12:00
  • Cory Barton - "Inertial Instability"
  • Eric Mortenson - "Stories from Appalachicola Bay"
  Circulation of oxygen and salinity in Appalachicola Bay, FL
• Wednesday, Feb. 13th at 12:00-1:00pm
  • Carlowen Smith - "Enstrophy"
    What the heck is up with Enstrophy?
• Wednesday, Feb 6th at 12:00-1:00pm
  • Yang Jiao - "A History of Thermocline Theory"
    Pedlosky, J., 2006: A history of thermocline theory. Physical Oceanography: Developments since 1950, M. Jochum and R. Murtugudde, Eds., Springer, 139-152.
• Wednesday, Jan. 30th at 12:00-1:00pm
  • Karina Khazmutdinova - "Arctic Journal"
    Karina will talk about her recent cruise on a Russian ship in the Arctic Ocean
  • Tachanat Bhatrastaponkul - "Polar Low and Oceanic Deep Convection"
    A look at how meso-scale low-pressure systems can alter the ventilation of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW).
• Wednesday, January. 23rd at 12:00-1:00pm PIZZA at 12 pm!!
  • Elizabeth Simons - "Drifter Deployment Journal"
    An account of Elizabeth's deployment of FSU's new bottom drifters in the Southern Ocean
  • Aaron Paget - "Satellite Whitecap Estimates"
    Understanding Major contributing factors on globally applicable whitecap coverage estimates using satellite-derived data.

Fall 2012

• Thursday, Nov. 29th at 3:00pm ( Free Pizza at 2:30pm! )
  • Karina Khazmutdinova - "Percolation into Dragon's Tooth Cave"
  • Carlowen Smith - "Laboratory Exploration of Multiple Zonal Jet Regimes"
• Wednesday, Nov. 21st at 2:30pm
  • Elizabeth Simons and Jeremy Rodriguez - "Inter-annual variability of Jets and Large Scale Structures"
  • Joe Schoonover - "Numerical Modelling of Baroclinic Instability"
• Thursday, November 1st at 2-3:30pm
  • Flow Show by Ruby Krishnamurti - "THE PERPETUAL SALT FOUNTAIN AND DOUBLE DIFFUSIVE CONVECTION"
• Thursday, September 20th at 2-3:30pm
  • Carlowen Smith - Jets and Orography: Idealized Experiments with Tip Jets and Lighthill Blocking by P Rhines
  • Joe Schoonover - Modeling Baroclinic Instability
• Thursday, September 13th at 2-3:30pm
  • Flow Show by Ruby Krishnamurti - "FLUID BOUNDARIES AND INTERFACES"
• Thursday, September 6th at 2-3:30pm
  • Lakshika Girihagama - Climate Shock: Abrupt Changes over Millennial Time Scales by E Bard
• Friday, Aug 10th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Jason Callaghan - Modeling Reactive Transport
  • Joe Schoonover - Assessing hazards of heavy metal dumping in the Gulf of Mexico

Summer 2012

• Friday, Jul. 27th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Carlowen Smith - "Why GI Taylor is a threat to national security"
  • Joe Schoonover - "A two-layer model of Gulf Stream separation" by AT Parsons
• Friday, Jul. 20th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Dhruv Balwada - "Overturning in the Southern Ocean" by JM Marshall and KG Speer
• Friday, Jul. 6th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Elizabeth Simons - Bottom Drifters
  • Yang Jiao - Condition for instability in symmetric motions in atmosphere/ocean
• Friday, Jun. 22nd 1:00-2:00pm
  • Joe Schoonover - Thermodynamics in GFD
  • Tachanat Bhatrasataponkul - CLIVAR/CORE: Coordinated Ocean-Ice Reference Experiments
  • Pizza Time
• Friday, Jun. 15th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Emma Giunipero - Estimation of the effect of eddies on coastal El Niño flows using along-track satellite altimeter data
• Friday, Jun. 6th 1:00-2:00pm
  • Dhruv Balwada - Introduction to Diffusion
  • Carlowen Smith - Non-Traditional Approximations in GFD

Spring 2012

• Wednesday Mar 21st 12:30 - 1:30pm
  • Jason Callaghan - Markov Chain Monte Carlo
  • Emma Giunipero - Interannual Coastal Flows and Eddies
• Wednesday Feb. 29th 12:30 - 1:30pm
  • Eric Mortenson - Birth of the Antarctic Slope Current
  • Carlowen Smith - Dynamics of Convectively Driven Banded Jets in the Laboratory
• Wednesday, Feb. 8th 12:30 - 1:30pm
  • Elizabeth Simons - Surf Drifters
  • Carlowen Smith - Lakes on Titan
• Monday, Jan. 30th 1:30 - 2:30pm
  • Ruby Krishnamurti Seminar - "Salt flux measurement in a laboratory model estuary"
• Friday, January 6th, 2012, 3:00pm
  • Discuss Regular Meeting Time for Spring 2012 Semester

Fall 2011

• Dec. 9th - Jan. 6th
  • On Hiatus during winter break
• December 7, 2011
  • Flow Show by Ruby Krishnamurti - "SOME THERMAL OSCILLATORS"
    • Rijke Tubes
    • Trevelyan’s rocker
    • Thermohaline Oscillator
    • Water wheel Chaotic Oscillator
• November 2, 2011
  • Flow Show by Ruby Krishnamurti - "HIGH REYNOLDS NUMBER FLOWS"
    • Kelvin’s Circulation Theorems
    • Bernoulli’s Theorem demonstrated
    • Bath-tub vortex
    • Vortex rings
    • flow past obstacles
• October 28, 2011
  • Austin Todd - Enhancement of Wind-Driven Upwelling and Downwelling by Alongshore Bathymetric Variability by J.M. Pringle
  • Aaron Paget - Remote Sensing of Whitecaps
• October 21, 2011
  • Joseph Schoonover - Analysis of East Coast Bathymetry
  • Carlowen Smith - Role of the Annulus Experiment in GFD
• October 14, 2011
  • Jason Callaghan - Modeling Hydrofracture
  • Dhruv Balwada - DIMES Floats in the Drake Passage