Climate Dynamics 2019
Course Information
Instructors
J. Mülmenstädt (Lectures)
J. Kretzschmar/J. Mülmenstädt (Exercises)
Topics
Radiation and greenhouse effect; dynamics and general circulation of oceans and atmosphere; internal variability; forcing and feedbacks; anthropogenic climate change
Dates
3 April–10 July 2019
Lectures
Wednesdays 13:15–14:15
Seminarraum, vor dem Hospitaltore
Exercises
Wednesdays 15:00—15:45
CIP-Pool
Exams
Oral (30 min.), dates to be announced
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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Lectures
Date &
Slides & Supplemental Material
03 April
10 April
17 April
8 May
15 May
General circulation of the oceans
I; General circulation
of the oceans II
Supplements: Robert Stewart's Introduction
to Physical Oceanography; Kuhlbrodt et al. (2007)
on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
22 May
Lithosphere, biosphere,
cryosphere
Supplements:
UNEP Global
Outlook for Ice and Snow; National Snow and Ice Data
Center; IPCC AR5
5 June
Internal variability
Supplement: COMET module on tropical dynamics
12 June
Forcing and
feedbacks in the climate system
Supplements: Bony and Stevens (unpublished), Notes by Karo Block on estimation
of feedback strengths
26 June
Robust projections of climate change
Supplement: Held
and Soden (2006), Allen and Ingram
(2002), Andrews et al. (2009)
Exercises
Due &
Number & Data/Literature/Coding Hints
17 April
24 April
8 May
22 May
29 May
HW 5
Supplement: Wild et
al. (2013), Trenberth
and Caron (2001)
5 June
19 June
HW 7
Supplement: Kay et al. (2015);
CESM Large Ensemble data description;
Jahn et al. (2016)
26 June
HW 8
Supplement: Gregory et al. (2004)
10 July
HW 9
Supplement: Kravitz et al. (2011)