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:
Important announcements
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Slides
Date &
Slides & Supplemental Material
14 April
21 April
28 April
Ocean I
Supplement: Robert Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
5 May
12 May
Land, biosphere, cryosphere
Supplement: UNEP Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, National Snow and Ice Data Center
19 May
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
30 June
Clouds and aerosol (guest lecture by Ed Gryspeerdt)
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
9 July
Exercise 7
Supplement: Data files and Kravitz et al. (2011) for experiment description