Bartello, Peter

Professor The Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University Burnside Hall, Room 910 805 Sherbrooke W. Montreal, QC, H3A 0B9, Canada Office hours: Personal web page: http://www.mcgill.ca/meteo/faculty_staff/faculty/bartello/

Email: bartello@math.mcgill.ca Phone: (514) 398-8075 Fax: (514) 398-3899

Research Interests

My research employs both theoretical and numerical techniques to study fluid turbulence in the atmosphere and oceans. This includes the statistical nature of the flow as a function of rotation and stratification. The simplifying assumptions employed at larger scales, that rotation and stratification terms in the governing equations are predominant and approximately balanced by other terms, become invalid at smaller scales. The interactions between large-scale vortices and more general turbulent and wave motions are therefore the subject of these studies, as is the effect on the turbulent transport of passive scalars such as pollutants or ozone.

Publications

• Sacher, W. and P. Bartello, 2007: Sampling errors in ensemble Kalman filtering - Part I, submitted to Mon. Wea. Rev.
• Spyksma, K. and P. Bartello, 2007: Small-scale moist turbulence in numerically-generated convective clouds, J. Atmos. Sci. in press.
• Ngan, K., P. Bartello and D. N. Straub, 2007: Dissipation of synoptic-scale flow by small-scale turbulence, J. Atmos. Sci. in press.
• Spyksma, K. and P. Bartello, 2007: Predictability in wet and dry convective turbulence, J. Atmos. Sci. in press.