This class provides a series of Python programming exercises intended to explore the use of numerical modeling in the Earth system and climate sciences. The scientific background for these models is presented in a companion class, Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change. This class assumes that you are new to Python programming (and this is indeed a great way to learn Python!), but that you will be able to pick up an elementary knowledge of Python syntax from another class or from on-line tutorials.
This class is intended to complement a Coursera class called Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change, which presents much of the background to the material here. In this class you'll be using spreadsheets (maybe) and Python (definitely) to do some simple numerical calculations on topics in Earth System Science. The model you'll be working on this week is based on material from Unit 3 of that class, called First Climate Model.
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2个视频6篇阅读材料1个作业1个编程作业1次同伴评审
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2个视频•总计7分钟
Welcome•4分钟
How the Model Works•3分钟
6篇阅读材料•总计60分钟
Scripting and Spreadsheets•10分钟
Tips for Using Spreadsheets for Numerical Simulation•10分钟
Tips for Getting Started Coding•10分钟
Model Formulation•10分钟
How to Solve Using a Spreadsheet•10分钟
How to Encode into Python or Fortran•10分钟
1个作业•总计30分钟
Code Tricks: Heat Capacity, Time Steps, and Equilibration Time•30分钟
1个编程作业•总计180分钟
Code Check•180分钟
1次同伴评审•总计120分钟
Code Review•120分钟
Iterative Runaway Ice-Albedo Feedback Model
第 2 单元•小时 后完成
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The ideas behind this model were explained in Unit 7, Feedbacks, in Part I of this class. First we get to generate simple linear "parameterization" functions of planetary albedo and the latitude to which ice forms (colder = lower latitude ice). Second, for any given value of the solar constant, L, we'll use iteration to find consistent values of albedo and T, to show the effect of the ice albedo feedback on Earth's temperature, running away to fall into the dreaded "snowball Earth".
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1个视频3篇阅读材料1个作业1个编程作业1次同伴评审
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1个视频•总计5分钟
How the Model Works•5分钟
3篇阅读材料•总计30分钟
Parameterized Relationship Between T, Ice Latitude, and Albedo•10分钟
Spreadsheet Instructions•10分钟
Coding Instructions•10分钟
1个作业•总计30分钟
Code Trick: Hysteresis Into and Out Of the Snowball•30分钟
1个编程作业•总计180分钟
Code Check•180分钟
1次同伴评审•总计60分钟
Code Review•60分钟
Ice Sheet Dynamics
第 3 单元•小时 后完成
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Ice flows like extra-thick molasses, downhill. The shape of the ice sheet (altitude versus distance across) is determined by the relationship between ice surface slope and the flow rate of the ice.
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1个视频3篇阅读材料1个作业1个编程作业1次同伴评审
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1个视频•总计5分钟
How the Model Works•5分钟
3篇阅读材料•总计30分钟
Model Formulation•10分钟
Spreadsheet Tips•10分钟
Coding•10分钟
1个作业•总计30分钟
Code Tricks: Time Steps, Snowfall, and Elevation•30分钟
1个编程作业•总计180分钟
Code Check•180分钟
1次同伴评审•总计120分钟
Code Review•120分钟
Pressure, Rotation, and Fluid Flow
第 4 单元•小时 后完成
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Planetary rotation and fluid flow were explained in Part I of this class, Unit 6, on Weather and Climate.
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1个视频1篇阅读材料2个作业3个编程作业1次同伴评审
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1个视频•总计7分钟
How the Model Works•7分钟
1篇阅读材料•总计10分钟
Model Description•10分钟
2个作业•总计60分钟
Code Trick: Geostrophic Flow and a Drifting Rossby Wave•30分钟
Code Trick: Gyre Circulation with Westward Intensification•30分钟
3个编程作业•总计540分钟
Optional Code Check, Simple Rotation Scheme•180分钟
Optional Code Check, Interpolated Rotation •180分钟
Code Check•180分钟
1次同伴评审•总计120分钟
Code Review•120分钟
A Model of Climate Changes Today
第 5 单元•小时 后完成
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Background for this model was presented in Part I of this class, Unit 9, The Perturbed Carbon Cycle.
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