U.S.-Switzerland Joint Seminar in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Interlaken, Switzerland, September 18-24, 1988.

该奖项为参加1988年9月在瑞士因特拉肯举行的地球物理流体动力学研讨会的9位美国科学家提供了部分资助。来自澳大利亚、德国、英国和加拿大的四名瑞士研究人员和其他科学家预计也将出席。此次研讨会由芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的Susan J. Friedlander博士和苏黎世瑞士联邦理工学院的Kolumban Hutter博士组织。研讨会的目的是将来自不同学科的科学家聚集在一起，交流他们在地球物理背景下关于内波的研究成果和想法。参加者包括应用数学家、地球物理学家、气象学家、湖泊学家、海洋学家等。会议的统一主题是研究旋转分层流体中的波动。这些流体具有各种波动，对湖泊、海洋、大气和地核中的大量现象都具有重要意义。研讨会将涵盖四个广泛的主题：(1)边界对内波的影响；(2)β平面和球壳中的行星波；(3)非线性内波，特别是孤波；(4)旋转流体中的磁流体动力波。这些主题在理解各种地形条件下的湖泊和海洋波、大气和行星波、地核波、不同波的相互作用以及某些地球物理和天体物理现象方面具有应用价值。会议的形式将是邀请演讲的几次演讲，然后是每天的讨论。会议记录将发表在《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》的特刊上，研讨会组织者将担任特邀编辑。

This award provides partial support for nine U.S. scientists to participate in a seminar on geophysical fluid dynamics at Interlaken, Switzerland in September, 1988. Four Swiss researchers and other scientists from Australia, Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada are also expected to attend. Dr. Susan J. Friedlander, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Dr. Kolumban Hutter, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, are organizing the seminar. The purpose of the seminar is to bring together a group of scientists from several disciplines to exchange their research findings and ideas about internal waves in geophysical contexts. The participants include applied mathematicians, geophysicists, meteorologists, limnologists, oceanographers, and others. The unifying theme of the conference is the study of wave motion in rotating, stratified fluids. Such fluids possess a variety of wave motions that are significant to a large number of phenomena in lakes, oceans, the atmosphere and the earth's core. The seminar will cover four broad topics: (1) Effects of boundaries on internal waves, (2) Planetary waves on the beta-plane and in spherical shells, (3) Nonlinear internal waves, particularly solitary waves, and (4) Magnetohydrodynamic waves in rotating fluids. These topics have applications in understanding lake and ocean waves in various topographical conditions, atmospheric and planetary waves, earth core waves, interactions of different waves, and certain geophysical and astrophysical phenomena. The conference format will be several presentations of invited lectures followed by discussions each day. The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics with the seminar organizers as guest editors.