Climate Dynamics 2016
Course Information
Instructors:
J. Mülmenstädt (Lectures)
T. Goren, J. Quaas (Exercises)
Locations:
Seminarraum, vor dem Hospitaltore (Lectures)
CIP-Pool (Exercises)
Times:
Wednesdays 15:30 — 17:00 (Lectures)
Wednesdays 12:30 — 14:00 (Exercises)
Start dates:
Wednesday, 6 April 2016 (Lectures)
Wednesday, 20 April 2016 (Exercises)
Topics:
Dynamics of oceans and atmosphere; budgets of energy and momentum; energy cycles; general circulation of the oceans and atmosphere; modes of internal variability; forcing and feedbacks; anthropogenic climate change
Exams:
Oral (30 min.) in July/August, by appointment
Textbooks:
Peixoto and Oort (1991): Physics of Climate
Hartmann (1994): Global Physical Climatology
Stewart (2005):
Introduction to Physical Oceanography (open-source textbook)
Syllabus:
Announcements
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Slides
Date &
Slides & Supplemental Material
6 April
6 April (#2)
Atmosphere, Ocean
Supplement: Robert Stewart's Introduction to Physical Oceanography
27 April
4 May
Land, biosphere, cryosphere
Supplement: UNEP Global
Outlook for Ice and
Snow, National Snow and Ice Data
Center, IPCC AR5
4 May (#2)
18 May
Atmospheric energy and entropy cycles
Supplement: Lorenz (1955)
25 May
General circulation of the oceans
Supplement: Kuhlbrodt et al. (2007) on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
1 June
Internal variability; example: ENSO
Supplement: COMET module on tropical dynamics
8 June
Forcing and feedbacks in the climate system
Notes by Karo Block on estimation
of feedback strengths
15 June
Robust projections of climate change
Held
and Soden (2006), Allen and Ingram
(2002), Andrews et al. (2009)
29 June (#2)
Social aspects of climate change and review
Exercises
Due &
Number & Data/Literature/Coding Hints
28 April 2016
Exercise
sheet 1
Supplement: Introduction
12 May 2016
18 May 2016
25 May 2016
1 June 2016
15 June 2016
Exercise
sheet 6 (updated)
Supplement: Some hints to get you
started. You will also need the unperturbed climate state:
rlut,
rlutcs,
rsdt,
rsut,
rsutcs,
tas
22 June 2016
6 July 2016
Exercise
sheet 8
Supplement: Kravitz et al. (2011) for experiment description