[Atmosdyn] Resuming meetings!

[Ryan Love]

Hey All,

In case folks wanted to rough out when things work for them I made a
quick Doodle Poll at http://doodle.com/poll/3q7492b4f2mt27dw
It is only set at 2h increments for ease of use.

Cheers,
Ryan

On 03/01/17 14:40, Andres, Heather wrote:
> Happy new year everyone! I hope you all had good breaks and a chance to
> rest your brains for a bit.  :)
> 
> I would like to get our meetings going again, so we need to work out a
> few organizational issues.
> 
> 1.  What day and time shall we meet?  Please send me your availability,
> and I'll let everyone know what appears to work.
> 
> 2.  Topics of interest to cover?  I looked back at our organizational
> summary in September, and we have reviewed geostrophic and thermal wind
> balance, potential vorticity and quasi-geostrophic balance.  We covered
> new Rossby waves and an introduction to wave mean-flow interactions. 
> 
> Other topics we had originally identified as being of interest include
> - the effects of topography or bathymetry and heating on dynamics
> - wave mean-flow interactions and the North Atlantic eddy-driven jet
> - importance of ekman spiralling and pumping to atmosphere-ocean
> interactions
> - atmosphere-sea ice/ocean interactions
> - atmospheric dynamics in polar regions
> - large-scale atmosphere and ocean circulations
> 
> To that end, I have identified a few papers that are attached to this
> message. 
> - Held 1983 discusses the effects of topography and heating on
> atmospheric circulation. 
> - Held 1985 discusses large-scale atmospheric circulation.
> - Barnes 2011 discusses the effect of eddies on the NAtl eddy-driven jet
> 
> That's what I have so far.  Take a look at them, and let me know which
> are of interest.  Please send me other papers you would be interested in
> discussing as well.
> 
> Heather
> 
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> Dr. Heather Andres
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
> Physics and Physical Oceanography
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> St. John's, CANADA
> (709)864-8846
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