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Gareth P. Williams

Research Interests

  • General Circulation Modeling
    • Climate dynamics
    • Multiple jets
  • Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
    • Vortex sets
vortex genesis in 2MB fast and 9MB slow quicktime;
with 3D surface in 0.7MB sample and jupiter's great red spot in Astropix 09/26/00;
replay movie files with xanim.


Planetary Movies

Examples 1-3: 1998 best case
Examples 4-7: 1995 test case
  1. GRS + Ovals 2MB quicktime
    genesis and equilibration of jupiter's vortices
    3-D primitive equation model in x, y, z, t
    temperature field, jovian parameters, case jh1v30, 5/98
    every 10 days for 0-2000, 4800-5000, 9700-10000 days
    from equator (at top) to -60' latitude, over 360' longitude
  2. GRS + Ovals 9MB quicktime
    every 2 days, else as above 
  3. GRS + Ovals 0.7MB quicktime
    3-D view of final merger, every 2 days for 1300-1500
    else as above
  4. 3-D vortices merging movieplayer
    je2b06 . . . 5/95
  5. 3-D vortices merging quicktime
    je2b06 . . . 5/95
  6. 3-D vortices drifting movieplayer
    je1e57 . . . 4/95
  7. 3-D vortices drifting quicktime
    je1e57 . . . 4/95
Related to papers JAS 1996, JGR 1997, and JAS 2002