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This course on climate modeling has the following key points: - It is intended for students of any science background, with some basic math and physics required. Grades will be based on minor and major assignments. - The course will cover the basics of the climate system and introduction to climate modeling, including numerical modeling techniques and case studies on climate change simulations. - The syllabus includes topics like the climate system overview, climate modeling concepts, modeling requirements and limitations, climate model components, and climate simulations. - Textbooks and study materials will be provided to learn about numerical weather prediction and climate change modeling. - The motivation for learning climate modeling is to address questions around global warming and its causes

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This course on climate modeling has the following key points: - It is intended for students of any science background, with some basic math and physics required. Grades will be based on minor and major assignments. - The course will cover the basics of the climate system and introduction to climate modeling, including numerical modeling techniques and case studies on climate change simulations. - The syllabus includes topics like the climate system overview, climate modeling concepts, modeling requirements and limitations, climate model components, and climate simulations. - Textbooks and study materials will be provided to learn about numerical weather prediction and climate change modeling. - The motivation for learning climate modeling is to address questions around global warming and its causes

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ASL380: CLIMATE MODELING

Saroj Kanta Mishra


Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, IIT Delhi
E-mail: [email protected]
Logistics & Administrative Issue

✤ Prerequisites: This course is intended for students majoring in any science


area. Some basic mathematics and physics preparation is required, but no
background in atmospheric sciences is necessary.

✤ Grading:
✓ Minor (s): 40 points
✓ Major: 60 points
✓ Audit Criteria: Pass Mark 50%

✤ Re-Exams and/or I grade Eligibility: 75% Attendance

✤ Teaching Assistants: will be announced in a couple of days

✤ Contact Hours: Any time (Mon-Fri); I may not be available all the time in my
office so better send an e-mail before coming
Syllabus

Basics of the climate system and introduction to


climate modeling. Conservation of mass,
momentum, and energy; horizontal and vertical
energy transfer, moist processes, and wave
processes. Numerical Modeling (Model
overview, initial and boundary conditions,
numerical techniques, parameterization of sub-
grid scale processes, hierarchy of models,
simulation, tuning, validation, and verification)
Case studies (Phenomenological and process
studies, viz. influence of mountains and surface
temperature on atmospheric circulation and
precipitation distributions, etc.; modeling of
climate change due to doubling of CO2, etc.)
Sample Course Outline

1. Overview of the Climate System

2. Concepts of Climate Modeling

3. Requirements and Limitations of Climate Modeling

4. Components of a Climate Model

5. Climate Simulations
References

Textbooks:
J. D. Neelin, Climate Change and Climate Modeling.
J.Coiffier, Fundamentals of Numerical Weather Prediction.

References:
Relevant study materials and class slides will be provided during the course.
“Motivation for the Course”

–Why to learn this subject of Climate Modeling …


Global Warming
W E A R E P U S H I N G T H E S Y S T E M O U T O F T H E R A N G E H U M A N B E I N G S H AV E A D O P T E D T O

Temperatures in the past have been higher (and lower) than today, but the today’s CO2
concentration is much higher and the increase is occurring at a much faster rate

The rise in CO2 will probably trigger further rise in the temperature
Global Warming
T E M P E R AT U R E H A S B E E N W E L L A B O V E N O R M A L F O R M O R E T H A N T W O D E C A D E S

The warming is stronger over land than over oceans


Global Warming
ARE HUMANS THE CAUSE ?

The natural forcing (solar and volcanic) of the last 50 years would have produced cooling

Addition of the extra anthropogenic forcing (greenhouse gases and particles) can
reproduce the pattern of warming that is seen over the past century
Such Questions Could be Addressed Using
Climate Models; No theory, no observational
studies could answer such questions so
directly.

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