ScheduleΒΆ

Here you can find the subject matter and assigned reading for every class day as well as expected homework dates.

Please check back here frequently as the schedule is subject to change.

Note, the readings are mostly links to sections in the The Climate Laboratory by Brian Rose unless otherwise stated.

Date (2022) Class No. Topic and reading Homework
1/24 0 Course introduction and Syllabus
1/26 1 Climate models, the global energy budget, and Fun with Python
1/31 2 Modeling the global energy budget
2/02 3 The climate system and climate models HW 1 out
2/07 4 Introducing the CESM and the xarray package
2/09 5 Computing global averages with xarray and CESM data HW 1 due
2/14 6 Building simple climate models using climlab HW 2 out
2/16 7 A brief review of radiation
2/21 8 Simple greenhouse models (day 1) HW 2 due
2/23 9 Simple greenhouse models (day 2)
2/28 10 Radiative Equilibrium
3/02 11 Radiative-Convective Equilibrium HW 3 out
3/07 12 Climate sensitivity and feedback (day 1)
3/09 13 Climate sensitivity and feedback (day 2) HW 3 due
3/14 NO CLASS (Spring Break)
3/16 NO CLASS (Spring Break)
3/21 14 Transient and equilibrium warming in CESM
3/23 15 Toy models of transient warming HW 4 out
3/28 16 Insolation
3/30 17 Ice ages and orbital forcing HW 4 due
4/04 18 Heat transport (day 1)
4/06 19 Heat transport (day 2)
4/11 20 The one-dimensional Energy Balance Model HW 5 out
4/13 21 Ice-albedo feedback and Snowball Earth in the EBM
4/18 22 The moist Energy Balance Model HW 5 due
4/20 23 Polar amplification in a hierarchy of models
4/25 24 IPCC projections of future climate change
4/27 25 Climate sensitivity in an uncertain world
5/02 26 Class presentations
5/04 27 Class presentations Final projects due