Sack Lunch Seminar (SLS)

SLS: Antoine Venaille - GFDL
Date Time Location
April 27th, 2011 12:10pm-1:00pm 54-915
Equilibrium statistical mechanics of quasi-geostrophic turbulent flows


Geostrophic turbulent flows are known to self-organize at large scale despite their complicated, turbulent dynamics. It gives a strong incentive for a statistical mechanics approach, which allows to predict some properties of the large scale organization without describing the small scale dynamics. We will present some applications of such a theory in very idealized contexts, by discussing i) the spontaneous formation of oceanic rings ii) barotropization processes.