Proceedings Volume 2015
2015 Program in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
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Stochastic Processes in Atmospheric & Oceanic Dynamics
John Wettlaufer and Oliver Bühler, Directors
Charlie Doering and Henk Dijkstra, Principal Lecturers
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543
Principal Lectures (Lecture notes taken by GFD Fellows)
Preface
Lecture 1
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Processes
Lecture 2
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Processes (cont'd)
Lecture 3
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Processes (cont'd)
Lecture 4
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Processes (cont'd)
Lecture 5
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Processes (cont'd)
Lecture 6
Climate Variability and its Null Hypothesis
Lecture 7
The El Niño Phenomenon
Lecture 8
The El Niño Phenomenon (cont'd)
Lecture 9
Dansgaard-Oeschger Events
Lecture 10
Dansgaard-Oeschger Events (cont'd) & Ocean Western Boundary Current Variability
Fellows' Reports
The Diffusion Fish
Gunnar Peng, University of Cambridge
Noisy Homoclinic Pulse Dynamics
Tom Eaves, University of Cambridge
Instantons as a Means to Probe Chaotic Attractors
Andre Souza, University of Michigan
Bounds for Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems using Sum-of-Squares Optimisation
Giovanni Fantuzzi, Imperial College London
A Correlated Stochastic Model for the Large-scale Advection, Condensation, and Diffusion of a Passive Scalar
Tom Beucler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coupled Reduced Equations for Strongly Stratified Flows
Cesar B. Rocha, University of California, San Diego
Population Dynamics Forced by Stochastic Catastrophic Events
Christopher Spalding, California Institute of Technology
Punctuated Plume Penetration: Entrainment Dynamics of the Layered Filling Box
Yana Bebieva, Yale University
An Optimal Exit Time Problem
Florence Marcotte, Ecole Normale Supérieure
A Stochastic Approach to Examining the Seasonal Predictability of Arctic Sea Ice
Anna Fitzmaurice, Princeton University