Climate Science
- Effective Temperature of the Earth computation
- Solar Constant computation
- Earth's Albedo
- Energy Balance Models
- General Circulation Models form the heart of climate modeling, and they're as fascinating as they are fun!
- Heat Equation for Atmospheric Dynamics
Stuff to think about
- Reference to lookup: John C. Wyngaard, Turbulence in the Atmosphere. Cambridge University Press, 2011
- Note that sympl (v. 0.4.0) and climt (v. 0.15.3) – towards a flexible frameworkfor building model hierarchies in Python may be an interesting paper worth pondering further…
- Vallis's selection of classic papers
Syllabi
- Advanced Meteorology, University of Utah
Reading List
- Kevin A. Reed and Christiane Jablonowski,
"Idealized tropical cyclone simulations of intermediate complexity: A test case for AGCMs".
J. of Advances in Modeling Earth Sciences 4 no.2 (2012) 25 pages doi:10.1029/2011MS000099- Discusses "Dry dynamical core + moist simple-physics" test cases, an intermediary step between just a "dry dynamical core" and a "water world" model.
- David J. Raymond,
"Regulation of Moist Convection over the West Pacific Warm Pool".
J. Atmos. Sci. 52 (1995) 3945–3959 doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1995)052<3945:ROMCOT>2.0.CO;2- Seems to be the first paper to discuss the boundary layer quasi-equilibrium hypothesis, which is the basis of "Emanuel convection scheme"
- Kerry A. Emanuel and Marina Živković-Rothman,
"Development and Evaluation of a Convection Scheme for Use in Climate Models".
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 56 no.11 (1999) pp.1766–1782 doi:10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<1766:DAEOAC>2.0.CO;2
- Isaac M. Held and Max J. Suarez,
"A Proposal for the Intercomparison of the Dynamical Cores of Atmospheric General Circulation Models".
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 75 no.10 (1994) pp.1825–1830 doi:10.1175/1520-0477(1994)075<1825:APFTIO>2.0.CO;2- Discusses Held–Suarez forcing