Schedule and Handouts

• Week

  Description

  Reading/Handouts

• 04/04

  Historical overview, components of a climate model

  ESE 136 Intro+Overview

• 04/11

  Fluid envelopes: atmosphere, oceans, and the physical laws governing them

  Goosse, chapter 3.3 (online notes)

• 04/18

  Key concepts in the numerical solution of differential equations: spatial discretization and time stepping methods; computational complexity

  Goosse, chapter 3.4 (online notes)

• 04/25

  Numerics (continued). Parameterization of unresolved processes

  Goosse, chapter 3.4 (online notes)

  Parameterizations (McFarlane 2011)

• 05/02

  Parameterization overview (continued). Ocean parameterizations.

  Gettelman and Rood, chapter 6.

  Presentation by Ignacio (Gent-McWilliams parameterization).

• 05/09

  Land modeling: biosphere and hydrology

  Gettelman & Rood, chapter 7.

  Presentations by Sophia (human land use effects), Rui (ecosystem modeling), and Ariana (glacier modeling)

• 05/16

  History of Earth system modeling; coupling of components

  Atmosphere-ocean coupling (Stocker, chapter 8) (Katrina, Ben)

  Spencer Wears, Climate Modeling History (Emmet)

• 05/23

  Model evaluation

  IPCC AR5, chapter 9 (Natalie, Newton, Kaleigh)

• 05/30

  Climate predictions

  IPCC AR5, chapters 11 and 12 (Elyse, Brigitte, Clare)