| Week |
Lectures |
Lab/Exercises |
Reading |
| 1 4/1 4/3 |
Tu: Introduction and
review of
planetary energy balance (B) Th: Feedback, climate sensitivity and stability (B) |
Tu: Add your bio to the Class Wiki by 4/3 Th: HW1 due 4/8 on the CAM diagnostics package |
Required: Hansen
et al, 2004 by4/8 Pierrehumbert, 2005 by 4/10 (pdfs on password protected area) Optional: McGuf&HS 1-2, Hartmann 3, Robinson 1 |
| 2 4/8 4/10 |
Tu: Lab (B) Th: atmospheric General circulation (B/R) |
Snowball Earth Modeling HW2 due 4/15 |
Required: See Phil's suggested reading on the wiki. Everyone should read the first one he lists. Questions appreciated but not required. |
| 3 4/15 4/17 |
Tu: Clouds (R) Th: Aerosols (R) |
Aerosol indirect effect estimate. HW3 due 4/29. | Recommended: Boville and Bretherton, 2003 read by 4/22 Required: Collins et al, 2005 read by 4/24 (questions required by 9am 4/24) |
| 4 4/22 4/24 |
Tu: Boundary Layer (B) Th: Radiation (B) |
Required: Bitz & Lipscomb, 1999 and at least sections 1 & 2 of Bitz et al 2001 by 4/29 |
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| 5 4/29 5/1 |
Tu: Sea ice (B) Th: Ocean general circulation (T) |
1D sea ice modeling HW4 due 5/6
(hand out 4/29) Ocean GCM HW5 due 5/13 |
Required: Griffies et al 2005 read by 5/1 Required: Wunsch and Ferrari 2004 read by 5/8 (questions required 9am 5/8) Recommended: Wunsch 2007 paper on Ocean Circulation and GCMs |
| 6 5/6 5/8 |
Tu: Ice Sheets (B) Th: Class Discussion (visitor,T) |
Final Project Proposals Paragraphs due 5/13 |
Read papers for your final projects |
| 7 5/13 5/15 |
Tu: Ocean mixing (T) Th: Ocean (T) |
Work on Projects |
Required: Keenlyside et al 2008 for
5/15 (no questions necessary) |
| 8 5/20 5/22 |
Tu: Ocean carbon cycle (T) Th: Soils, vegetation & land carbon cycle (B) |
Ocean Biopump modeling hw6.pdf |
Required: Siegenthalar and
Sarmiento 1993 and Doney et al bookchapter for
5/20 (no questions necessary) Required: Fung et al 2005 for 5/22 (no questions necessary) |
| 9 5/27 5/29 |
Stratospheric modeling and chemistry (R) |
Work on projects |
Required: Kiehl 2007 and Held 2005 (send questions by 9am on 6/3 to CC and LuAnne) |
| 10 6/3 6/5 |
TBA Student presentations |
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| 11 6/11 |
Student presentations |
Durran, D., Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Springer, 1999.
Curry, J. A. and P. J. Webster, Atmospheres and oceans, Academic
press, 1999.
Hartmann, D., Global Physical Climatology, Elsevier Academic Press, 1994
Holton, J., Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.
Kiehl, J.T. and V. Ramanathan, Frontiers in Climate Modeling, 2006. A collection of papers about climate modeling. Most are pretty basic and others are more about the authors research.
Jacobson, D., Fundamentals of atmospheric modeling, Cambridge, 1998.
Kalnay, E., Atmospheric modeling, data assimilation and predictability, Cambridge, 2003.
McGuffie, K., and A. Henderson-Sellers, A climate modeling primer, 2nd ed., John Wiley and Sons, 2005. A very descriptive book about climate modeling for the casual (or non-) scientists
Pierrehumbert, R. in preparation. Climate on Earth and other planets at a rather basic and yet thought provoking level. It not finished yet and so it free online for now!
Randall, D., General Circulation Model development, Academic press, 2000.
Robinson, W., Modeling dynamic climate systems, Springer, 2001. Very basic book about modeling with stella (arrows and boxes) emphasizing systems thinking
Trenberth, K., Climate System Modeling, Cambridge, 1992. An excellent book but costs a fortune. I don't have a copy but Tom Ackerman does!
Washington, W., and C. Parkinson, An introduction to three-dimensional climate modeling, 2nd ed., University Science Books, 2004. A good graduate level text.