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Zonal Jets and Eddies - Planetary Science and Satellite Oceanography at the Crossroads

Presentations From The First Meeting

Monday

Zonal Jets and Eddies - Planetary Science and Satellite Oceanography at the Crossroads
Presented by Boris Galperin
Zonal Jets: Some Introductory Remarks
Presented by Peter Read
Issues in Zonal Flows and Drift Wave Turbulence
Presented by P.H. Diamond
Zonostrophic Instability
Presented by Bill Young
Other Contributors: Kaushik Srinivasan, Aldo Manfroi, and Andy Thompson

Tuesday

Zonal Winds on Fluid Planets: Observations and Models
Presented by Agustin Sanchez-Lavega
Stationary Earth's Ocean Striations as Beta-Plumes
Presented by Nikolai Maximenko
Collaborators and contributors: Oleg Melnichenko, Ali Belmadani, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, and Niklas Schneider
Jets on Giant Planets
Presented by Adam P. Showman
Collaborators: Yuan Lian, Yohai Kaspi, Lorenzo Polvani
A Mechanistic View of the Maintenance of Zonal Jets
Presented by Walt Robinson
Emergence of Jets & Vortices in Forced Shallow-Water Flows
Presented by David Dritshel
Other Authors: Richard Scott
Conundrum of Geostrophic Turbulence in the Oceans: Multiple Alternating Jets,Waves and Vortices
Presented by Pavel Berloff
Collaborators: Igor Kamenkovich, Joe Pedlosky, Tom Farrar, Sergey Karabasov
Southern Ocean Jets: the Impact of Topography on Variability and Mixing
Presented by Andrew Thompson

Wednesday

Baroclinic Instability on Hot Extrasolar Planets
Presented by James Y-K. Cho
Other Contributors: Inna Polichtchouk
Energy Spectra From Cassini Jupiter Data
Presented by Roland Young
Other Contributors: David Armstrong, Nadejda Dikovskaya, Boris Galperin, Andrew Lancaster, Peter Read, and Semion Sukoriansky
Power Spectral Analysis of Jupiter's Clouds and Kinetic Energy from Cassini
Presented by David S. Choi
Anisotropic Geostrophic Turbulence and Convection on the Coriolis Platform
Presented by Peter Read Other Contributors: T. Jacoby, L.P.H.T. Rogberg, R.D. Wordsworth, Y.H. Yamazaki, K. Miki-Yamazaki, R.M.B. Young, J. Sommeria, H. Didelle, S. Viboud, and B. Galperin
Projects of Rotating Convection Experiments
Presented by Joel Sommeria
Turbulence and Zonal Jets in Rotating Flows with a Beta-effect
Presented by Gabriella Di Nitto on befalf of Stefania Espa
Other contributors: Gabriella Di Nitto

Thursday

Setting the Experiments at ICTP
Presented by Semion Sukoriansky
Laboratory Study of Forced Rotating Shallow Water Turbulence
Presented by Gabriella Di Nitto
Other contributors: Stefania Espa

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