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Johannes Mülmenstädt

Climate Dynamics 2015

Course Information

Instructor:

J. Mülmenstädt

Location:

Seminarraum, vor dem Hospitaltore (Lectures)
CIP-Pool (Exercises)

Time:

Tuesdays 15:15 — 16:45 (Lectures)
Thursdays 11:45 — 13:00 (Exercises)

Start date:

Tuesday, 14. April 2015

Exams:

Oral in July, 30 Minutes

Syllabus:

Course announcement and syllabus

Important announcements

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Slides

Date &

Slides & Supplemental Material

14 April

Introduction

21 April

Atmosphere

28 April

Ocean I
Supplement: Robert Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography

5 May

Ocean II

12 May

Land, biosphere, cryosphere
Supplement: UNEP Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, National Snow and Ice Data Center

19 May

Radiation

26 May

General circulation
Kuhlbrodt et al. (2007) on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

2 June

Internal variability
Supplement: COMET module on tropical dynamics

9 June

Feedbacks (guest lecture by Karo Block)
Supplement: lecture notes

18 June

Robust projections of climate change
Held and Soden (2006)

23 June

Attribution of climate change to anthropogenic forcing

30 June

Clouds and aerosol (guest lecture by Ed Gryspeerdt)

7 July

Social aspects of climate change

14 July

Review

Exercises

Due &

Number & Data/Literature/Coding Hints

7 May

Exercise 1
Supplement: some R code to get started. In case you're wondering: what is R?

7 May

Exercise 2
Supplement: salinity/temperature data

21 May

Exercise 3
Supplement: CERES TOA radiative fluxes

4 June

Exercise 4
Supplement: ERA-Interim fields

25 June

Exercise 5
Supplement: ERA-Interim 00Z-12Z and ERA-Interim 12Z-24Z monthly-mean fluxes and ERA-Interim v and T 6-hourly fields. A few lines of code to get started are here and here. My plot for problem 2. Some literature to which you can compare your results: Wild et al. (2013), Trenberth and Caron (2001)

2 July

Exercise 6

9 July

Exercise 7
Supplement: Data files and Kravitz et al. (2011) for experiment description