Alpine Summer School 2010 - Course XVIII

"Buoyancy Driven Flows"

to be held in Valsavarenche, Valle d'Aosta (Italy), 21-30 June, 2010


Buoyancy is one of the main forces driving flows on our planet, especially in the ocean and atmosphere. Buoyancy driven flows encompass a wide spectrum of geophysical flows that range from buoyant coastal currents to dense overflows in the ocean, and from avalanches to volcanic pyroclastic flows on the Earth's surface. The lectures will have a strong emphasis on the ocean.

The lectures will first give a broad overview of the current state-of-the-art research in... [Read More]

The School will cover the following broad areas

• Physics of Ocean-Atmosphere interactions
• Dynamics of Oceanic - Atmospheric processes
• Measurement and estimation of Ocean-Atmospheric exchange fluxes
• Fundamentals of modeling in Ocean – Atmospheric processes

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