TY - CHAP A1 - Vincze, Miklos A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Egbers, Christoph T1 - An experimental study on the co-existence of topographic waves and baroclinic instability in a differentially heated rotating annulus T2 - 18. International Coyette-Taylor Workshop, University of Twente, Enschede The Netherlands, 24. - 26. june 2013 Y1 - 2013 SP - S. 67 CY - Enschede ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Larcher, Thomas von A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Seelig, Torsten A1 - Randriamampianina, Anthony A1 - Viazzo, Stephane A1 - Vincze, Miklos T1 - Multiple scales in the thermally driven rotating annulus: time-series data analysis of experiments and numerics T2 - ICTW 19, Book of Abstracts, 19th International Couette-Taylor Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2015 Cottbus, Germany Y1 - 2015 SP - 40 EP - 41 CY - Cottbus ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Randriamampianina, Anthony A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Vincze, Miklos A1 - Seelig, Torsten A1 - Larcher, Thomas von A1 - Viazzo, Stephane T1 - Inertia gravity waves linked to baroclinic waves in a rotating, differentially heated annulus with an upper free surface T2 - ICTW 19 Book of Abstracts, 19th International Couette-Taylor Workshop, June 24 - 26, 2015 Cottbus, Germany Y1 - 2015 SP - 38 EP - 39 CY - Cottbus ER - TY - GEN A1 - Rodda, Costanza A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Vincze, Miklos T1 - Jet stream variability in a polar warming scenario – a laboratory perspective T2 - Weather and Climate Dynamics Y1 - 2022 UR - https://wcd.copernicus.org/articles/3/937/2022/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-3-937-2022 SN - 2698-4016 VL - 3 IS - 3 SP - 937 EP - 950 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Sukhanovskii, Andrei A1 - Abide, Stéphane A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Popova, Elene A1 - Rodda, Costanza A1 - Vasiliev, Andrei A1 - Vincze, Miklos T1 - New Laboratory Experiments to Study the Large-Scale Circulation and Climate Dynamics T2 - Atmosphere N2 - The large-scale flows of the oceans and the atmosphere are driven by a non-uniform surface heating over latitude, and rotation. For many years scientists try to understand these flows by doing laboratory experiments. In the present paper we discuss two rather new laboratory experiments designed to study certain aspects of the atmospheric circulation. One of the experiments, the differentially heated rotating annulus at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus, has a cooled inner cylinder and a heated outer wall. However, the structure of the atmospheric meridional circulation motivates a variation of this “classical” design. In the second experiment described, operational at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics (ICMM) in Perm, heating and cooling is performed at different vertical levels that resembles more the atmospheric situation. Recent results of both experiments are presented and discussed. Differences and consistencies are highlighted. Though many issues are still open we conclude that both setups have their merits. The variation with heating and cooling at different levels might be more suited to study processes in the transition zone between pure rotating convection and the zone of westerly winds. On the other hand, the simpler boundary conditions of the BTU experiment make this experiment easier to control. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/14/5/836 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14050836 VL - 14 IS - 5 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Borcia, Ion-Dan A1 - Vincze, Miklos A1 - Rodda, Costanza T1 - Probability Distribution of Extreme Events in a Baroclinic Wave Laboratory Experiment T2 - Fluids N2 - Atmospheric westerly jet streams are driven by temperature differences between low and high latitudes and the rotation of the Earth. Meandering jet streams and propagating Rossby waves are responsible for the variable weather in the mid-latitudes. Moreover, extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold spells are part of the jet stream dynamics. For many years, a simple analog in the form of a simplified laboratory experiment, the differentially heated rotating annulus, has provided insight into the dynamics of the meandering jet stream. In the present study, probability density distributions of extreme events from a long-term laboratory experiment are studied and compared to the atmospheric probability density distributions. Empirical distributions of extreme value monthly block data are derived for the experimental and atmospheric cases. Generalized extreme value distributions are adjusted to the empirical distributions, and the distribution parameters are compared. Good agreement was found, but the distributions of the experimental data showed a shift toward larger extreme values, and some explanations for this shift are suggested. The results indicate that the laboratory model might be a useful tool for investigating changes in extreme event distributions due to climate change. In the laboratory context, the change can be modeled by an increase in total temperature accompanied by a reduction in the radial heat contrast. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7080274 SN - 2311-5521 VL - 7 IS - 8 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vincze, Miklos A1 - Harlander, Uwe A1 - Larcher, Thomas von A1 - Egbers, Christoph T1 - An experimental study of regime transitions in a differentially heated baroclinic annulus with flat and sloping bottom topographies T2 - Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-21-237-2014 SN - 1607-7946 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 237 EP - 250 ER -