| Week |
Lectures |
Lab/Exercises |
Reading |
| 1 3/29 3/31 |
Tu: Introduction Th: Heat transports and ice, discussion of Enderton and Marshall, 2009. |
Required: first seven pages of Enderton
and Marshall 2009 by 3/31; first two pages of Notz 2009 for 4/5; and Hoffman et al 1998 for 4/7 Recommended: Hoffman et al 2002 for 4/7 |
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| 2 4/5 4/7 |
Tu: Ice-albedo Feedback , ebm lecture notes Th: Snowball Earth and discussion of Hoffman et al 1998 Th 3:30 Paul Hoffman is speaking in JHN 102 about "Strange waters on a Snowball Earth" |
HW1 due 4/19 notes on using the EBM EBM model for downloading on your computer |
Required: Raymo_Huybers_2008
for 4/12 Recommended: Haywood and Valdez (2004) a climatte modeling perspective on the pliocene Fedora et al. 2006 The Pliocene Paradox (Mechanisms of a permanent El Nino) |
| 3 4/12 4/14 |
Tu: 1-D EBMs and Ice in the late pliocene to early pleistocene, discussion of Raymo and Huybers Th: Lack of Ice in the Pliocene, discussion of Fedora et al & Haywood and Valdex Th: 3:30 Ray Pierrehumbert is, speaking in JHN 102 about "Exoplanets: Snowballs, Eyeballs, and H-balls" |
Required: Joughin et al 2008 for 4/19 Kay et al for 4/21 Serreze et al for 4/21 Recommended: note other papers discussed on 4/21 were Stroeve et al 2007 Kwok and Untersteiner 2011 (just look at the figures) |
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| 4 4/19 4/21 |
Tu: Ian Joughin Guest Lecture on ice sheet and ice stream speed up Th: modern sea ice decline and detection, visit with Jen Kay |
HW2 due 5/5 | Required: Bamber_etal2009.pdf for 4/26 Recommended: |
| 5 4/26 4/28 |
Tu: Ice sheet-climate feedbacks Th: Cecilia absent, no class |
Required: Huybers & Tziperman,
2008 for 5/3 Bitz and Marshall 2011 (parts about ice sheets for now) Recommended: Marshall 2006 on glaciers and climate |
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| 6 5/3 5/5 |
Tu: Alpine glaciers and mass balance basics Th: Ice sheet modeling no notes provided yet |
HW3 due 5/12 Final Project |
Required: Deser et al 2009 for 5/10, Bitz and Marshall 2011 (parts about
sea ice) Recommended: |
| 7 5/10 5/12 |
Tu: Discussion of Deser et al 2009 and the Arctic Paradox Th: Sea ice |
Proposals Paragraphs due 5/17 by
email |
Required: Martinson et al 1981 for
5/17 through section 4 and no more! Thorndike et al 1992 for 5/19 p9401-9403 and fig 4, pickup again from section 4 to end. Recommended: |
| 8 5/17 5/19 |
Tu: Guest lecturer Brian Rose on a convective model for the Weddell Sea Polynya Th: Guest lecturer Kyle Armour on sea ice feedbacks and the Thorndike Toy Model Fr 3:30 Stephen Warren in JHN 075 "Ocean surfaces on Snowball Earth" |
Required: Schuur et al 2009 for
5/24 |
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| 9 5/24 5/26 |
Tu: Permafrost, snow on land Th: Clathrates, Black Carbon, Tibetan Plateau glaciers |
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Required: Kehrwald_etal2008.pdf for 5/26 Barnett_etal2005.pdf for 5/26 Recommended: |
| 10 5/31 6/2 |
Tu: Atmosphere response to ice sheets and atmospheric circulations/thermodynamics important for ice Th: Student Presentations |
Try to read: Turner_etal_2009.pdf on ozone
forced sea ice response in SH for 5/31 Recommended: |
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| Tu: Sudent Presentations |
Turn in papers |