OA413 CLIMATE DYNAMICS
Instructors: Professor Jochem Marotzke (co-ordinator), Professor John Shepherd;
School of Ocean & Earth Science, Southampton Oceanography Centre;
Jochem.Marotzke@soc.soton.ac.uk; SOC, 566/11; Tel. (023) 80 593755
John.G.Shepherd@soc.soton.ac.uk SOC, 564/03; Tel. (023) 80 596256
Syllabus and draft schedule
Semester 2 Spring/Summer 2003
Short-Fat, Block B: Monday, 3 March – Friday, 21 March
We will meet in Lab T (SOC 166/37); the SOC Henry Charnock Lecture Theatre (HCLT), and SOC Room 084/02.
NB: The Lectures link to the notes; some notes are on the web that are not taught in the current version of the course.
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Week 1 |
Monday, 3 March, 11:00 – 12:40, Lab T |
Lecture 1: Introduction (JM) |
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Monday, 3 March, 13:50 – 15:30, Lab T |
L3: Simple Climate Models I (JS) Global Energy Balance Models Issue Assignment I (JS) Issue Course Project Report (JM & JS) | |
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Tuesday, 4 March, 11:00 – 12:40, 084/02 |
L4:Simple Climate Models II (JS) One-Dimensional Energy Balance Models | |
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Tuesday, 4 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L5: Simple Climate Models III (JS) Radiative-Convective Models Notes | |
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Wednesday, 5 March, 9:00 – 10:40, HCLT |
L7: Ocean Data and Dynamics I (JM) Passive Ocean Models | |
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Wednesday, 5 March, 15:50 – 17:30, HCLT |
L8: Ocean Data and Dynamics II (JM) Thermohaline Circulation (THC) and Salinity Effects | |
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Thursday, 6 March, 11:00 – 12:40, Lab T |
L9: Ocean Data and Dynamics III (JM) Surface Boundary Conditions
Exercises; Issue Assignment II (JM) |
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Thursday, 6 March, 14:00 |
Assignment I due |
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Thursday, 6 March, 14:45 – 16:35, HCLT |
L10: Ocean Data and Dynamics IV (JM) Box Models: Multiple Equilibria Part I | |
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Friday, 7 March, 9:00 – 10:40, Lab T |
L10: Ocean Data and Dynamics IV (JM) Box Models: Multiple Equilibria Part II | |
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Friday, 7 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L11: Ocean Data and Dynamics V (JM) Box Models: Interhemispheric Flow | |
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Week 2 |
Monday, 10 March, 11:00 – 12:40, Lab T |
Exercises; Issue Assignment III (JM) |
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Monday, 10 March, 14:00 |
Assignment II due |
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Tuesday, 11 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L12: Coupled Box Models I (JM) Formulation and Steady States | |
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Wednesday, 19 March, 9:00 – 10:40, HCLT |
L13: Coupled Box Models II (JM) Time-Dependence and Feedbacks | |
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Thursday, 13 March, 14:00 |
Assignment III due |
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Thursday, 13 March, 14:45 – 16:35, HCLT |
Exercises; Issue Assignment IV (JM) |
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Friday, 14 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L14: Biogeochemistry and Climate (JS) | |
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Week 3
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Monday, 17 March, 11:00 – 12:40, Lab T |
L15: Palaeoclimatology and Ice Ages (JS) |
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Tuesday, 18 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L16: CO2 and Climate (JS) Issue Assignment V (JS) | |
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Tuesday, 18 March, 14:00 |
Assignment IV due |
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Wednesday, 19 March, 9:00 – 10:40, HCLT |
L17: THC Theory (JM) | |
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Thursday, 20 March, 14:45 – 16:35, HCLT |
L20: Intermediate-Complexity Models (JS) | |
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Friday, 21 March, 13:50 – 15:30, HCLT |
L21: Abrupt Climate Change (JM) | |
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Monday, 24 March, 14:00 |
Assignment V due |
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Friday, 28 March, 14:00 |
Course Project Report due |
Last Updated 21 March, 2003; author: Jochem Marotzke