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Geoff Vallis and Jurgen Theiss have started a list serve for
Atmosphere-Ocean discussion. (Great idea!) Please pass the word.<br><br>
Perhaps we can start things off with the following question that occurred
to me during a journal club meeting with the UT-Austin GFD club.
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"Why don't KAM barriers to transport qualify as a fully
nonlinear<br>
theory that explains the inhibition to mixing at small spatial
scales?" We were discussing the following article, that states that
there is no such fully nonlinear theory. I'd never heard of "KAM
barriers" before, but from what Harry explained, these seem to
qualify. He was concerned that they only strictly apply to 2d turbulence,
but I argue that's good enough -- see attached excerpts from my summary
of the meeting to put this question in context. <br><br>
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Multiple jets as PV staircases: the Phillips effect and the resilience
of<br>
eddy-tranport barriers \\<br>
D.G. Dritchel and M.E. McIntyre \\<br>
JAS, in press<br><br>
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Institute for Geophysics<br>
University of Texas at Austin<br>
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