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Basics of Climate Modeling

Prof. Asif Qureshi · IIT Hyderabad

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. ClimateTrends Video
  2. Components of the Climate System Video
  3. Vertical Motions in the atmosphere Video
  4. Hydrosphere Video
  5. Cryosphere Video
  6. Basic data analysis Video

Week 2

  1. Radiative Balance and Effective Temperature Video
  2. Earth's Surface Temperature and Atmospheric Temperature Video
  3. Ratiative forcing Video
  4. Lapse Rate and Atmospheric Stability Video

Week 3

  1. Concept of Radiative Forcing Video
  2. Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity Video
  3. Physical Feedbacks Video

Week 4

  1. Chemical Cycles and Box modeling Video
  2. Geochemical Cycles Video

Week 5

  1. Types of Climate Models: Focusing on Energy Balance Models Video
  2. Meridional Energy Transport Components in One-Dimensional Energy Balance Models Video
  3. Applicability of Climate Models and the Snowball Earth Hypothesis Video

Week 6

  1. Atmosphere-Ocean System Video
  2. Harvey and Schneider (1985) J. Geophysical Research Vol. 90)) Video
  3. Transient response of climate to external forcing on timescales of 1 to 10,000 years Video
  4. Wigley and Schlesinger 1985 Video

Week 7

  1. Transport of Energy and Matter Video
  2. Small-scale and Large-scale Motions in the Atmosphere and Oceans Video

Week 8

  1. Earth's energy balance and the mechanisms of meridional heat transport Video
  2. General Circulation Models (GCMs) Video
  3. Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs) Video
  4. Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs) Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Hyderabad
Department
Civil Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Asif Qureshi
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
NPTEL
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