BAO flux tower

Overview

Climate modeling has become a central component for hypothesis testing, theoretical development, climate analysis and a tool for prediction. While the physical underpinnings of climate models are well understood and based on well established physics, the use (and abuse) of climate models in climate science, policy and the media is often shrouded is a veil of skepticism. Is this reasonable, or paranoia? What can be learned from climate models and analysis of the climate data? How are they used successfully in scientific inquiry?

Instructor: David Noone<dcn@colorado.edu>

When: Spring 2012; Friday 1-2pm

Where: Ekeley Sciences S274 (CIRES Fellows room)

Prerequisites: none

Grading: Class participation (100%)


Pizza! Presenter should let Mike know their preference no later than 10 am on Friday.

Date
 Who
 Paper
27 Jan
 David
 Planning/assignments
03 Feb
 Tony
 On the Temperatures of the Terrestrial Sphere and Interplanetary Space Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1824).
10 Feb
 Adriana
 On the Absorption and radiation of Heat by Gases and Vapours, and on the Physical Connexion of Radiation, Absorption, and Conduction John Tyndall (1861).
17 Feb
No meeting
24 Feb
 Jesse
 Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity Syukuro Manabe and Richard T. Wetherald (1967).
02 Mar
 Sally
   Climate Sensitivity: Analysis of Feedback Mechanisms J. Hansen, I. Fung, A. Lacis, J. Lerner, D. Rind, R. Ruedy, G. Russell and P. Stone, (1984).


09 Mar
No meeting
16 Mar
 John
 Earth’s Energy Imbalance: Confirmation and Implications James Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato, Josh Willis, Anthony Del Genio, Dorothy Koch, Andrew Lacis, Ken Lo, Surabi Menon, Tica Novakov, Judith Periwitz, Gary Russell, Gavin A. Schmidt and Nicholas Tausnev (2005).
23 Mar
 Aleya
 The Artificial Production of Carbon Dioxide and its Influence on Temperature G. S. Callendar (1938).
30 Mar
Spring break - no meeting
06 Apr
 Tony
 Man-Made Carbon Dioxide and the ‘Greenhouse’ Effect J. S. Sawyer (1972).
13 Apr
 Aleya and Mike
 1.   The Concentration and Isotopic Abundances of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmoshpere C. D. Keeling (1960).
2. Is Carbon Dioxide from Fossil Fuel Changing Man’s Environment? Charles D. Keeling (1970).
20 Apr
 Max
 Neutralization of Fossil Fuel CO2 by Marine Calcium Carbonate W. S. Broecker and T. Takahashi (1977).
27 Apr
 Adriana
 Anthropogenic Carbon and Ocean pH Ken Caldeira and Michael E. Wickett (2003).
04 May
 HC
 Vostok Ice Core Provides 160,000-Year record of Atmospheric CO2 J. M. Barnola, D. Raynaud, Y. S. Korotkevich and C. Lorius (1987).



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