Geophysical Convection Dynamics

Dr. Jun-Ichi Yano has more than 30 years of research experience with various geophysical convection problems: those include the dynamics of atmospheric convection and its parameterization, interactions of convection and the large-scale dynamics in the tropical atmosphere, convection inside the giant planets and the Earth's core, and convection of self-gravitating systems in high rotation limit. He has also been extensively working on other problems of geophysical flows: theoretical studies of the vortex dynamics, and their applications to the Jovian atmospheres, oceans, and the tropical atmosphere; chaos theory and its applications to the atmospheric dynamics; wavelet analyses; tropical meteorology, microphysics, and numerical weather a hypothesis of vertical homogeneity, prediction problems.

I. Stability Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Rayleigh-Taylor instability: Concept of stratification 3. Rayleigh-Bènard problem: Role of entropy 4. Weakly Nonlinear Theory 5. Highly-Viscous Convection: Prototype of Mantle Convection 6. Effect of Rotation: Rayleigh-Bènard Convection with Rotation 8. General formulation and the thermodynamics 9. Atmospheric thermodynamics and Anelastic approximation 10. Parcel stability analysis 11. Pressure Problem

II. Well-mixed convective boundary layer 12. Dry Case 13. General formulation 14. Cloud-topped boundary layer 15. Organized Convection 16. Thermal 17. Plume 18. Convective Organization