CMG2004 Program

June 16th

7:45-8:45

Breakfast (Coffee/Bagels etc.) Lobby Schapiro

8:40

Welcome and Opening Remarks (Dan Rothman & Marc Spiegelman)

Session I: Fluids I (the atmosphere)

8:50

Self-organization of the atmospheric macroturbulence to critical states of weak nonlinearity

Tapio Schneider (CalTech)

9:10

Surface fluxes, ocean coupling, and the tropical intraseasonal oscillation

Adam Sobel (Columbia Univ), Hezi Gildor (Weizmann Inst), and Eric Maloney (Oregon State Univ)

9:30

Convective entrainment in the tropical tropopause

Frank Robinson and Steven Sherwood (Yale University)

9:50

A Simple Model Of Annular Modes in the Atmosphere

Mathew Whittman, Andrew Charlton and Lorenzo Polvani (APAM/Columbia)

10:10

Simple Dynamical and Stochastic Models of Annular Patterns of Variability and the NAO

Edwin P. Gerber with Geoffrey K. Vallis (Princeton)

10:30-11:00

Break

Session II: Multi-phase systems I (Fire, ice and life)

11:00

Simulating the Dynamics of Volcanic Columns: a New Challenge in Volcanology

Augusto Neri and Tomaso Esposti Ongaro Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Centro per la Modellistica Fisica e Pericolosità dei Processi Vulcanici Via della Faggiola 32, 56126 Pisa, Italia

11:20

'Flow instabilities induced by viscous heating in magma conduits '

Antonio Costa, G. Macedonio (Observatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy)

11:40

Rheology of magmas and transition in lava flow dynamics inferred from percolation theory

Martin Saar (University of Michigan) and Michael Manga (UC Berkeley)

12:00-1:45

Lunch

Session III: Multi-phase systems (Fire, ice and life contd.)

1:45

Caustic Grain Boundary Melting in Ice

J. S. Wettlaufer1,2, L. Benatov2 and L.A. Wilen1 (Yale University)

2:05

Flow-induced morphological instability in mushy layers with applications to sea ice

Jerome Neufeld and John Wettlaufer (Yale University)

2:25

Effects of spatio-temporal variability of upwelling events on primary productivity.

C. Pasquero, A. Provenzale, A. Bracco (UCLA, INRI Torino)

2:45

Dynamics of the Ancient Carbon Cycle

Daniel H. Rothman Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3:05-3:35

Break

Session IV: The Solid Earth I (Earthquakes and Damage)

3:40

Short term earthquake prediction: Reverse tracing of precursors approach

V. Keilis-Borok (UCLA)

4:00

A visco-elastic damage rheology and rate- and state-dependent friction

Vladimir Lyakhovsky 1, Yehuda Ben-Zion2 and Amotz Agnon3

4:20

A generalized law for aftershock rates in a damage rheology model

Yehuda Ben-Zion (1) and Vladimir Lyakhovsky (2)

5:00

The Evolution of Fault Populations with Brittle Strain

C. H. Scholz1, B. E. Shaw1, C. Spyropoulos2,3

5:20

Modeling compaction and anti-cracks in High porosity rocks

Einat Aharanov (Weizmann Inst.)

June 17th

Session V: Advances in computational Earth Sciences

8:40

Adaptable Geophysics Models and Solvers

Bill Applebe (Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computation)

9:00

Dynamically adaptive geophysical fluid dynamics simulation using GASpAR

Duane Rosenberg, Aime Fournier, Annick Pouquet (NCAR, Boulder)

9:20

Modeling and Simulation of Hazardous Geophysical Mass Flows Using the TITAN toolset

A. K. Patra, M.F. Sheridan, E. B. Pitman, M. Bursik, C. Renschler, C. Nichita, B. Yu, A. C. Bauer and K. Dalbey. SUNY Buffalo

9:40

First-principles Multiscale Modeling of Earth Materials Properties

Ronald Cohen, (Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution of Washington)

10:00-10:30

Break

Session VI: Fluids II (The Oceans)

10:30

An Inverse Spectral Element Ocean Model

Julia Levin, Dale Haidvogel (Rutgers) & Mohammed Iskandarani (Univ. of Miami)

10:50

The Ocean and Thermohaline Loops, Stommel Box Models, and Sandström's Theorem'

Carl Wunsch (MIT)

11:10

Pacific decadal variability in the view of linear equatorial wave theory

Julien Emile-Geay and Mark Cane (LDEO/Columbia Univ).

11:30

Use of coupled modeling of ENSO to detect processes that are not detectable in forced models

Claire Perigaud(*) and Jean-Philippe Boulanger (**) (* CALTECH/JPL) ** Laboratoire d’Oceanographie Dynamique et de Climatologie, Paris)

11:50

Extending the Diagnosis of the Climate of the 20th Century to Coupled GCMs

Edwin Schneider (George Mason Univ/COLA)

12:10-1:45

Lunch

Session VII: New Approaches in data analysis

1:45

Multiscale Trend Analysis: a new approach to studying complex time series

I. Zaliapin, A. Gabrielov, V. Keilis-Borok (UCLA)

2:05

Balance Issues in Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation

Lisa Neef (Univ. of Toronto)

2:25

Multifractal Predictability in Geophysics

Daniel SCHERTZER and Shaun LOVEJOY (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Physics dept., McGill U.)

2:45

Statistical Significance Test of Intrinsic Mode Functions

Zhaohua Wu Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies Calverton, Maryland, USA

3:05-3:35

Break

(+Poster session set up)

Session IV: Fluids III (Mainly GFD I)

3:40

Numerical simulations of vortical and wave motion in stably stratified turbulence.

Michael Waite and Peter Bartello, McGill University

4:00

Rossby wave interaction connecting the tropics and midlatitudes: asymptotics and solitary waves

Joseph A Biello and A. J. Majda (Courant Inst., NYU)

4:20

Nonlinear interactions of inertia-gravity modes and planetary waves in rotating fluid flows

T. W. N. Haine 1, P. D. Williams 2 and P. L. Read 3 1 (Johns Hopkins University ) 2 Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, University of Reading, UK 3 Oxford University, UK (read@atm.ox.ac.uk)

4:40

A Unified Theory of Small Froude Number and Small Rossby Number Balance

Simal Saujani and Theodore G. Shepherd (Univ. of Toronto)

5:00

Anisotropic turbulence and zonal jets in the ocean, giant planets and computer simulations'

Boris Galperin (College of Marine Science, University of South Florida) Semion Sukoriansky (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University) Hideyuki Nakano (Oceanographic Research Department, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan )

6:00-9:00pm

Poster Session/Gala Reception: Faculty Room , Low Library

June 18th

Session IX: Solid Dynamics II

8:40

Role of Compositional Stratification on the Evolution of Planets

Sarah Zaranek, E.M. Parmentier,and L.T. Elkins-Tanton (Brown University)

9:00

The Big Bend and the strength of the San Andreas fault

Yuri Fialko (UCSD/Scripps)

9:20

An Application of Multiple Objective Optimized Simulated Annealing to Waveforms in the Baikal Rift

Richard Brazier, Penn State University

9:40

Wavelet Maxima Curves for the Analysis of Surface Latent Heat Flux Data

G. Cervone,D. Napoletani, M. Kafatos, R.P. Singh (George Mason University)

10:00-10:30

Break

Session X: Fluids IV

10:30

Reduced atmospheric models: proper basis functions, dimensionality, replacing fast degrees of freedom by stochastic noise

Frank Kwasniok (London School of Economics)

10:50

Simulation of Tropical Precipitation using the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation

Christina Perez, Adam Sobel and G Gu (Columbia Univ)

11:10

Dynamically balanced decade-mean global sea level at mesoscale resolution

Nikolai A. Maximenko 1 and Pearn P. Niiler 2 1 SOEST, University of Hawaii 2 Scripps Institution of Oceanography

11:30

Wave-like phenomena during the morning transition in the PBL: water-tank experiments'

Nicolas Arnault(1) , Pierre H. Flamant(1), Paul Billant (2), Jean-Marc Chomaz (2) (1)LMD-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique (2)LADHYX-CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique

11:50

Two Dimensionalization of rapidly rotating turbulence

Lydia Bourouiba and Peter Bartello (McGill Univ)

12:10-1:45

Lunch

Session XI: Multi-phase sytems II (Sedimentary and erosion processes)

1:45

Threshold phenomena in erosion driven by subsurface flow

Alexander Lobkovsky 1, Bill Jensen2, Arshad Kudrolli2, Daniel H. Rothman1 1Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02119 2Department of Physics, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610

2:05

A new kind of bedform

Brad Murray Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences/Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems Duke University, Box 90320, Durham, NC, 27708, (919) 681-5069, abmurray@duke.edu Rob Thieler U. S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program 384 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543-1598, (508) 457-2350, rthieler@usgs.gov

2:25

A simple model of aeolian megaripples

Hezi Yizahq BIDR, Ben Gurion University, Sde Boker Campus 84990, Israel

2:45

Stability of Viscous-Plastic Sea Ice Rheology: 1-D Approximation Method

JINRO UKITA (LDEO/Columbia) JUN YU and GUANGHUI WANG (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Vermont)

3:05-3:35

Break

Session XII: Chemical & Tracer Dynamics

3:35

Towards an integrated theory of geochemistry and geodynamics

Marc Spiegelman (Columbia University LDEO/DEES/DAPAM)

3:55

Statistical inversion of oceanographic tracer data

Radu Herbei, Ian W. McKeague & Kevin Speer (Florida State University)

4:15

Ocean uptake and transport of anthropogenic carbon inferred from tracers

Tim Hall (GISS, New York)

4:35

Sedimentary fingerprints and consequences of asymmetric flow fields surrounding isolated topography

Robert Turnewitsch (Southampton Oceanography Centre) Jean-Louis Reyss (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, France) David C. Chapman (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.) John Thomson, Richard S. Lampitt (SOC)

4:55

The entrainment rate of a rotating gravity current

Mathew Wells & John Wettlaufer (Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale)

6pm

IUGG/CMG Business Meeting