A qualitative and quantitative description of transport and mixing is crucial to our understanding of the atmosphere and oceans.
Many aspects remain poorly understood.
New observational studies of both the atmosphere and the ocean now reveal the highly inhomogeneous structure of transport. The requirement to improve modelling of the atmosphere and the ocean now focusses our attention on the importance of details of stirring and mixing for many key processes, including the evolution of plankton populations in the ocean, the interactions between water vapour, radiation and dynamics in the troposphere, and the chemistry of ozone, both in the troposphere and the stratosphere. Mathematical advances in dynamical systems theory, particularly chaotic mixing, and in the characterisation of complex geometrical structures offer the prospect of making progress in some of the above areas. The goal of this workshop is to review the most recent advances in the field of transport and mixing, and to explore new avenues in the particular context of the Isaac Newton Institute's programme The Mathematics of the Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics . For additional information please contact Sylvie Gravel, email s.gravel.newton.cam.ac.uk Programme Abstracts of most of the seminars are available here or by selecting each title individually.