QuikClimate: Physical Climate Course (Winter 2008)
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[edit] Basic Course Information
This course will be student-driven, faculty guided. Students will be expected to develop and deliver two lectures. This will give us 12 lectures, after the break. The lectures should be, approximately, 1 hour in length, and we should have an hour of discussion. So we should look at finding a 2 hour slot.
The first lecture(s) should be drawn from the Foundation Readings. The concentration should be on the conservation equation for water in the atmosphere, identification of source and sink terms (exchanges across interfaces), the role of water in the energy balance of the climate. The foundational lectures should include, specifically, the Betts' paper, which is an excellent analysis of the integrated land-surface / atmosphere interaction, and the use of model information in analysis.
Other papers to be lectured on are
Hartman: tropical Convection and Energy Balance
Arakawa: Review of Cumulus Parameterization
Boville: Precipitation in Community Climate System Model
Held: Hydrological cycle response in climate change
Stephens: Cloud feedback in climate change
[edit] Water in the Atmosphere
[edit] Foundation Reading
Hartmann: Chapter 5: Hydrological Cycle
Piexoto and Oort: Chapter 12: Hydrological Cycle
Pierrehumbert: Relative Humidity in the Atmosphere
Betts: Understanding Hydrometeorology with models and assimilation
Bony: Understanding climate feedback processes
[edit] Observations and Theory
[edit] Reading List
Betts: Understanding Hydrometeorology with models and assimilation
Hartman: tropical Convection and Energy Balance
[edit] Modeling
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Arakawa: Review of Cumulus Parameterization
Boville: Precipitation in Community Climate System Model
[edit] Current Issues
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Held: Hydrological cycle response in climate change
Stephens: Cloud feedback in climate change
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