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SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS)

March 30, 2017
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Mudd Hall 214
Isaac Held Senior Research Scientist, GFDL/NOAA Lecturer with rank of Professor, AOS Program/Geosciences/Princeton University "Some problems in Quasi-Geostrophic Dynamics" Topics covered: barotropic instability of zonally asymmetric flow and the PNA pattern; a pseudo-momentum perspective on external Rossby waves, baroclinic wave packets; and issues related to homogeneous turbulent models of baroclinic heat fluxes Host: Aditi Sheshadri