IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Limerick, Ireland, 2–7 July 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Open Boundary Conditions: Fact and Fiction....Pages 1-18
Parameterizing Eddies in Ocean Climate Models....Pages 19-30
Boundary Filter Initialization of the Hirlam Model....Pages 31-44
Balance, Potential-Vorticity Inversion, Lighthill Radiation, and the Slow Quasimanifold....Pages 45-68
Kelvin’s Theorem and the Oceanic Circulation in the Presence of Islands and Broken Ridges....Pages 69-80
Global and Regional Atmospheric Modeling Using Spectral Elements....Pages 81-86
Piecewise-Constant Vortices in a Two-Layer Shallow-Water Flow....Pages 87-92
A Dynamical Stabilizer in the Climate System: A Mechanism Suggested by a Simple Model and Supported by GCM Experiments and an Observational Data Study....Pages 93-98
Waves on the Beta-Plane over Topography....Pages 99-104
Asymptotic Models and Application to Vortex Dynamics....Pages 105-110
Orographically Forced Variability in the Coastal Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer....Pages 111-118
The Influence of Thermocline Topography on the Oceanic Response to Fluctuating Winds: A Case Study in the Tropical North Pacific....Pages 119-124
Modelling the Dynamics of Abyssal Equator-Crossing Currents....Pages 125-130
Toward Accurate Coastal Ocean Prediction....Pages 131-136
An Air-Ocean Coupled Nowcast/Forecast System for the East Asian Marginal Seas....Pages 137-142
Development and Simulation of Atlantic Storms During Fastex....Pages 143-146
Low-Order Models of Atmospheric Dynamics with Physically Sound Behavior....Pages 147-152
Models for Instability in Geophysical Flows....Pages 153-160
Baroclinic Structure of a Modified Stommel-Arons Model of the Abyssal Ocean Circulation....Pages 161-166
The Available Potential Energy in a Compressible Ocean....Pages 167-172
The Role of Bottom Pressure Torques in the Ocean Circulation....Pages 173-178
Quasi-Geostrophic Potential Vorticity for a Generalised Vertical Coordinate: Formulation and Applications....Pages 179-182
On the Effect of a Surface Density Front on the Interior Structure of the Ventilated Ocean Thermocline....Pages 183-189
Non-hydrostatic Barotropic Instability....Pages 191-196
The CSIRO Conformal-Cubic Atmospheric GCM....Pages 197-202
On the Origin of Helical Flow Structures....Pages 203-208
Baroclinic Instability of Bottom-Dwelling Currents....Pages 209-214
General Properties of Baroclinic Modons over Topography....Pages 215-220
Acoustic Filtration in Pressure-Coordinate Models....Pages 221-226
Oscillatory Regimes of Forced Zonal Flow....Pages 227-232
Improving Climate Simulations in the Tropical Oceans....Pages 233-238
Synchroneity of the Low- Frequency Planetary Wave Dynamics and Its Use to Create a Model for the Numerical Monthly Weather Forecasting....Pages 239-244
Physical Mechanisms of Nonlinear Equilibration of a Baroclinically Unstable Jet over Topographic Slope....Pages 245-250
Evolution of Near-Singular Jet Modes....Pages 251-258
Linear Resonance, WKB Breakdown, and the Coupling of Rossby Waves over Slowly Varying Topography....Pages 259-264
Nonoscillatory Advection Schemes with Well-Behaved Adjoints....Pages 265-270
A Statistical Equilibrium Model of Zonal Shears and Embedded Vortices in a Jovian Atmosphere....Pages 271-278
The Impact of Small-Scale Topography on Large-Scale Ocean Dynamics....Pages 279-284
Numerical Experiments on Intraseasonal and Interannual Variations of the Troposphere-Stratosphere Coupled System....Pages 285-290
Back Matter....Pages 291-302