No seminar this week
Thursday, September 1, 2005
Why is the ocean so skinny?
Dr. Trevor McDougall
CSIRO Division of Oceanography
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
4:30 p.m., Thursday, September 8, 2005
Note location: KTS Lecture Hall, 2nd floor
New Academic Bldg, King's College
NOTE: Dr. McDougall is this year's Huntsman Award Recipient for Physical/Chemical Oceanography. He will be receiving the award at BIO on Tuesday Sept 6, and giving a public lecture on his research at BIO on Wednesday Sept 7.
No POMSS This Week
Thursday, September 15, 2005
A Labrador Sea modeling studied by a coupled sea ice-ocean circulation model
Hideaki Kitauchi
Frontier Research Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC
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Hiroyasu Hasumi
Center for Climate System Research, U of Tokyo
4:30 p.m., Thursday, September 22, 2005
To this end we compute a basic flow field which is qualitatively consistent with the observed field. The horizontal circulation in the Labrador Sea is simulated well, while the vertical convection needs further improvement. It turns out that the simulated salinity is higher than the observed distribution. This may be caused by the less low salinity flux along the East Greenland Coast, suggesting that the freshwater flux from the Arctic by the East Greenland Current may play an important role for stabilization of stratification in the eastern part of the Labrador Sea by the eddy buoyancy flux.
In the seminar we will present our current status of a Labrador Sea modeling and discuss possible causes of the simulated higher salinity distribution in the Labrador Sea.
No seminar this week
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Heat and Salt budgets under the Peru-Chile Stratus: The role of the mesoscale
Keir Colbo
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 6, 2005
No seminar this week
Thursday, October 13, 2005
Interpreting Eddy Fluxes
Richard Greatbatch
Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 20, 2005
New Standard for 21st Century Sea Level Prediction in the Upper Bay of Fundy
Charles Hannah
Bedford Institute of Oceanography
4:30 p.m., Thursday, October 27, 2005
The circulation of the Southern Ocean - processes, dynamics and models
Dirk Olbers
Alfred-Wegener-Institut
Bremerhaven, Germany
4:30 p.m., Monday, October 31, 2005
NOTE: Special day
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4:30 p.m., Thursday, November 3, 2005
Nonlinear Generation and Loss of Infragravity Wave Energy
Stephen M. Henderson, R.T. Guza, Steve Elgar, T.H.C. Herbers, A.J. Bowen
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
4:30 p.m., Thursday, November 10, 2005
Funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the Izaak Walton Killam Foundation, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and NSERC.
CFC simulation in the North Atlantic
Jun Zhao
Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m., Thursday, November 17, 2005
Broadband Acoustic Scattering from Double-Diffusive Microstructure
Tetjana Ross
Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m., Thursday, November 24, 2005
Once again: Once again ADV use in the water column; sound scattering from phytoplankton?
David Ciochetto
Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m., Thursday, December 1, 2005
This talk will focus on a model to help future users of the ADV in suspect acoustically unfriendly environments determine a priori if the instrument is worth using. The model in development is a forward model where the scattering from the particles is assumed to be of the nature of a fluid sphere. This combined with the particle size spectra and assumed biological and background composition of the particles for low particle environments yields a prediction for the volume scattering strength of the targets. Corrections for absorption over the short path of the high frequency acoustic pulse and characteristics of the ADV electronics are applied to predict the amplitude that is expected in the data. Finally the model will be applied to data and particle size spectra measured in Bedford Basin and on the Scotian Shelf.
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4:30 p.m., Thursday, December 8, 2005
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4:30 p.m., Thursday, December 15, 2005
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