| Theme |
Date |
Topics |
Lecture Slides |
Supplementary Materials |
| A Hierarchy of Models |
1-7 |
- The primitive equations
- Numerics
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Slides
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Readings on numerical methods in the GFDL GCMs:
B-Grid model
Spectral barotropic model (read
this for next class)
Spectral shallow water model
Spectral primitive equations dynamical core |
|
1-9 |
- First NWP experiment
- Dynamical cores
- GCMs vs ESMs
|
Slides
|
Richardson's Dream book
ENIAC integrations
Suki Manabe's bibliography
|
|
1-14 |
- Physical parameterizations.
|
Slides
|
Arakawa review (Primary reading
assignment for 1-14)
My simplified Betts-Miller paper
Also, I really like a book called The Representation of Convection in
Numerical Models. |
|
1-16 and 1-23 |
|
Slides
|
Held 2005
Held and Suarez 1994
Frierson, Held and Zurita-Gotor 2006 |
| Tropical General Circulation |
1-28 |
- Determination of the tropopause height.
|
Slides |
|
|
1-30 |
- Axisymmetric models of the Hadley cell
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|
2-4 and 2-6 |
- Held-Hou and other Hadley cell models
|
Slides |
Satoh 1994 |
|
2-11 |
- 2-layer models of the tropics
|
Slides |
Frierson Majda and Pauluis 2004 |
|
2-13, 2-18, 2-20 |
- Gross moist stability, convectively coupled waves
|
Slides |
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|
2-25 |
- Gross moist stability and circulation
|
Slides |
|
| Extratropical general circulation |
2-27 |
- Width of the Hadley cell, midlatitude overview
|
Slides |
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The rest of the class |
- Barotropic vorticity equation, phase speed spectra, EP fluxes, alternative Lagrangian circulations, midlatitude energy fluxes, midlat static stability
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Slides |
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