| Week |
Lectures |
Lab/Exercises |
Reading |
| 1 4/2 4/4 |
Tu: Introduction Th: Heat transports and ice, discussion of Enderton and Marshall, 2009. |
Required: first seven pages of Enderton
and
Marshall
2009 by 4.4; Notz 2009
for 4/11; Recommended: Section 3 of Langen and Alexeev 2007 for 4/9 (the whole paper is good, if you like math) |
|
| 2 4/9 4/11 |
Tu: Ice-albedo Feedback, Polar Amplification, discussion of Langen and Alexeev, 2007 Th: Tipping points, irreversibility. Discuss Notz 2009 |
Required: for 4/18 Rose
and
Marshall
2009 Recommended: Rose et al 2013 Brian probably won't get to this afterall but it is a great paper |
|
| 3 4/16 4/18 |
Tu: Guest lecture by Brian Rose: Energy balance modeling and climate's sensitivity to obliquity Th: Part 2 Multiple equilibria of sea ice and ocean circulation by Brian Rose |
HW1 due 4/25 EBM in html EBM in matlab |
Required: Joughin et al 2008 for 4/23 Recommended: Joughins and Alley, 2011 |
| 4 4/23 4/25 |
Tu: Kristin Poinar on ice sheets and ice stream speed up Th: Day off |
Required: Recommended: Good idea to read Bamber_etal2009.pdf for 4/30 |
|
| 5 4/30 5/2 |
Tu: Ice sheet-climate feedbacks Th: Ice sheet-climate mass balance and simple dynamics |
HW2 due 5/9 |
Required: Loutre 2003 for 5/7 and Huybers & Tziperman,
2008 for 5/9 Recommended: Marshall 2006 on glaciers and climate for 5/2 |
| 6 5/7 5/9 |
Tu: Ice age climates Th: Discussion of Huybers & Tzpiperman, lecture on pliocene |
HW3 due 5/16 |
Required: Bitz and Marshall 2011 (parts
about
sea ice) Thorndike et al 1992 for 5/14 p9401-9403 and fig 4, pickup again from section 4 to end. Recommended: |
| 7 5/14 5/16 |
Tu: Sea ice basics Th: Sea ice feedbacks and the Thorndike Toy model |
Final Proj. Proposals
Paragraphs due 5/21 by
email |
Required: Martinson et al 1981 for
5/21 through section 4 and no more! Recommended: |
| 8 5/21 5/23 |
Tu: A convective model for the Weddell Sea Polynya Th: Ice on Exoplanets |
hw4 due 5/30 |
Required: Menou (2013) for 5/23 Recommended: |
| 9 5/28 5/30 |
Tu: Arctic Atmospheric response to ice anomalies, including midlatitude weather, Arctic Paradox Th: Antarctic atmosphere-ice interactions |
|
Required: Thompson_etal_2011.pdf for
5/30 Recommended: |
| 10 6/4 6/6 |
Tu: Permafrost, snow on land Th: Carbon release from permafrost, Clathrates, Black Carbon |
Try to read: Schuur_etal_2009.pdf
(terrestrial carbon/perfafrost) OR Dmitrendo_etal2011.pdf (undersea permafrost/methane) Recommended:Buffett_Archer_2004.pdf (on methane hydrates) |
|
| Tu: Sudent Presentations |
Turn in papers |