Speaker : Olivia Venot (LISA)
Title: On the importance of chemical data for warm exoplanet atmospheres
Abstract: The very first data from JWST are finally arriving and show us the full potential of this telescope for the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres. The interpretation of these data relies on atmospheric models, so it is of paramount importance that these models are reliable and robust. In this context I will show you the methodology applied to develop kinetic models adapted to the atmospheres of hot exoplanets, with physico-chemical data at high temperatures. I will also talk about the Hot Jupiter WASP-43b and the insights that JWST can give us into its atmosphere.
Speaker : Laurent Chemin (Universidad Andres Bello, Instituto de Astrofisica)
Title: Dynamics of the Milky Way and LMC as seen by Gaia
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Speaker : Philippe Bonneton (EPOC, CNRS/U. Bordeaux)
Title: Tidal bore dynamics in estuaries
Abstract: A tidal bore is a sudden elevation of the water surface that travels upstream an estuary with the incoming flood tide. The formation and dynamics of this spectacular and fascinating phenomenon bring into play nonlinear wave interactions over a large range of spatiotemporal scales. A tidal bore is a small-scale estuarine process with scales of variation of order few seconds in time and dozen meters in space. This small-scale process, which generally occurs in the upper estuary, results from the nonlinear transformation of the tidal wave over long distance (several dozen of kilometers) and long period of time (several hours). The general bore phenomenon has been extensively studied in fluid mechanics and mathematics. On the other hand, the large-scale mechanisms which control tidal bore formation has so far received little attention. In this presentation we will analyze tidal bore formation from a unique long term database acquired during 4 campaigns in the two main French tidal-bore estuaries: the Seine and Gironde/Garonne estuaries. We will show that the tidal bore intensity is mainly governed by the dimensionless tidal range, which characterizes the local tidal wave nonlinearity. We will also show that the undular bore structure can be explained by two different wave processes depending on the bore intensity.