Joint Oceanography-IPRC Seminar

Duncan Gifford and Aaron Levine
Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Natalie Kwa, Michelle Tigchelaar, Sherry Chou, Scott Grant, Thomas Kilpatrick, Karl Stein, Ana Vaz,
Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa will present a seminar entitled

"The Hadley Cell and Subtropical Gyre in a Rotating Tank ."

the Faculty Advisor was Niklas Schneider from the International Pacific Research Center, and the Department of Oceanography

Abstract:

Understanding motions in a rotating reference frame is essential for the study of atmospheric and oceanic circulations in oceanography, meteorology and climate, and is greatly helped by experimental demonstrations of the counter-intuitive behaviors of processes such as Taylor columns, geostrophy, Ekman layers and Rossby waves. The Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research recently acquired a mobile, rotating tank with associated equipment that allows experiments in rotating fluid dynamics to be conducted in a class room setting. The seminar presents the rotating tank with classical demonstrations of the atmospheric Hadley circulation, the formation of the storm track and the oceanic subtropical gyres. The experiments are prepared and the seminar will be conducted by students of the Departments of Oceanography and Meteorology.

Ticket Information
Free

Event Sponsor
Oceanography, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Ocean, 956-7633, ocean@soest.hawaii.edu, http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/oceanography/seminar.html

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