Course-Related Readings

Lecture 1 (Introduction):

Tutorial on Spherical Coordinates

Module 1: Climate Data and Statistics

Lecture 2-3 (Normal Distribution; Autocorrelation; Extremes):

Review of Basic Statistical Analysis Methods for Analyzing Data - Part 1 (from my online course Meteo 469)

Lecture 4 (Regression-Trends):

Review of Basic Statistical Analysis Methods for Analyzing Data - Part 2 (from my online course Meteo 469)

Lecture 5 (Regression-Statistical Modeling):

Review of Basic Statistical Analysis Methods for Analyzing Data - Part 3 (from my online course Meteo 469)

Module 2: Zero-Dimensional Energy Balance Model

Lecture 6 (Estimating global average temperature; Greenhouse Effect):

Zero-Dimensional EBM description (from A Climate Modeling Primer by McGuffie and Henderson-Sellers)

Lectures 7-8 (Modeling Historical Temperature Changes; Climate Sensitivity; Projecting Future Warming):

Mann, M.E., False Hope, Scientific American, 310, 78-81, 2014.

Module 3: One-Dimensional Energy Balance Model

Lecture 9-11 (Meridional energy balance; Atmospheric heat transport; Snowball Earth; Hysteresis):

One-Dimensional EBM description (from A Climate Modeling Primer by McGuffie and Henderson-Sellers)

Module 4: Role of Ocean Circulation

Lecture 12 (The AMOC; The Stommel Two-Box Model):

Box Models of The Thermohaline Circulation (from D.B. Haldvogel & F.O. Bryan in Climate System Modeling, edited by K. Trenberth)

Lecture 13 (“The Day After Tomorrow”; The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation):

“What’s Going on in the North Atlantic” by Stefan Rahmstorf, RealClimate.org

“Climate Oscillations and the Global Warming Faux Pause” by Michael Mann, RealClimate.org

Lecture 14 (The Stommel Model of the Ocean Gyre):

The Wind-Driven Ocean (from D.B. Haldvogel & F.O. Bryan in Climate System Modeling, edited by K. Trenberth)

(see also the Original Stommel (1948) article on subtropical gyres)

Lecture 15 (Ocean Gyres and Heat Transport; The Pacific Decadal Oscillation):

Wikipedia page on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation ("PDO")

Is Pacific Decadal Oscillation The Smoking Gun? By John Cross, SkepticalScience.com

Module 5: The El Nino/Southern Oscillation

Lecture 16 (ENSO Basics):

Wikipedia page on the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

Lecture 17 (The Delayed-Oscillator Model):

Mechanisms of Delayed Oscillator Model (from D.B. Haldvogel & F.O. Bryan in Climate System Modeling, edited by K. Trenberth)

Lecture 18 (The Cane-Zebiak Model):

A Model El Nino-Southern Oscillation, by M.A. Cane, and S.E. Zebiak, Monthly Weather Review, 115, 2262-2278, 1987

Lecture 19 (Climate Change and El Nino):

Twentieth Century Sea Surface Temperature Trends, by M.A. Cane et al, Science, 275, 957-960, 1997

Module 6: Climate Modeling and Climate Change

Lecture 20 (General Circulation Models):

Efficient Three-Dimensional Global Models for Climate Studies by J. Hansen et al, Monthly Weather Review, 111, 609-661, 1983.

(see also the ‘Ed GCM’ project at Columbia University)

lecture 21 (IPCC; Anthropogenic Climate Change):

Summary For Policy Makers, Working Group 1 Report, IPCC 5^th Assessment, 2013.

lecture 22-23 (An Inconvenient Truth):

RealClimate article: Al Gore’s Movie