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

该奖项为九名美国科学家参加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提供了部分支持。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。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博士将组织这次研讨会。研讨会的目的是将来自几个学科的一群科学家聚集在一起，交流他们关于地球物理背景下的内波的研究成果和想法。参与者包括应用数学家、地球物理学家、气象学家、湖泊学家、海洋学家等。这次会议的统一主题是研究旋转分层流体中的波动。这种流体具有各种波动，这些波动对湖泊、海洋、大气和地核中的大量现象具有重要意义。研讨会将涵盖四个广泛的主题：(1)边界对内波的影响，(2)贝塔平面和球壳中的行星波，(3)非线性内波，特别是孤立波，以及(4)旋转流体中的磁流体动力波。这些主题在了解各种地形条件下的湖浪和海浪、大气和行星波、地心波、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都有应用。会议的形式将是对特邀讲座的几次陈述，然后每天进行讨论。会议记录将发表在《地球物理和天体物理流体动力学》特刊上，研讨会组织者担任特邀编辑。

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.