11:670:461 - Climate Dynamics - List of Handouts

  1. Syllabus (9/4)
  2. Syllabus (revised Oct. 4)
  3. Syllabus (revised Oct. 10)
  4. Lecture slides (9/4)
  5. Lorenz, Edward, 1972: "The Butterfly Effect" (9/4)
  6. Daily sea ice from NSIDC (9/4)
  7. Term Paper Instructions (9/4)
  8. Climate Prediction Center Global Monsoons website  (9/4)
  9. Last Week with John Oliver, Climate Change Debate, 97 scientists vs. 3 deniers (9/4)
  10. Skeptical Science website, with answers to all criticisms of global warming science (9/4)
  11. Richard Alley 2009 talk at AGU on "The Biggest Control Knob, Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History" (9/4)
  12. Trenberth, K. E. (1983), What are the seasons? Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 64, 1276-1282. (9/4)
  13. COMET module on climatology (9/4)
  14. COMET course on climate change (9/4)
  15. Nelson, Robert A., 2003: Guide for Metric Practice, Physics Today, 56, No. 8 (Buyers’ Guide, August), BG15-BG16. (9/4)
  16. Metric System Review (9/4)
  17. How To Do Problems (9/4)
  18. Climate Explorer (9/4)
  19. Seasons and Elliptic Simulator (9/4)
  20. NCEI State of the Climate (9/4)
  21. Climate.gov (9/4)
  22. NCAR Climate Data Guide (9/4)
  23. NASA Causes of Climate Change (9/4)
  24. Encyclical of Pope Francis on Climate Change, Laudato Si  (9/4)
  25. PETM (9/4)
  26. List of students in class, with phone and e-mail (9/8)
  27. Homework 1, due Sept. 14 (9/8)
  28. Land cover data, Univ. Catholique Louvain (9/14)
  29. GISS surface air temperature anomalies, 1880-2014, described at http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ (9/14)
  30. Climate Reanalyzer (9/14)
  31. Homework 2, due Sept. 24 (9/14)
  32. nullschool.net visualization of atmosphere and ocean (9/17)
  33. NOAA El Niño Page (9/17)
  34. PAGES   News, El Niño edition, August 2013 (9/17)
  35. El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (9/17)
  36. North American Multi-Model Ensemble (9/17)
  37. Pacific-North American Pattern (PNA), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (9/17)
  38. North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (9/17)
  39. Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (9/17)
  40. Sir Gilbert Walker (9/17)
  41. QBO animation from Mark Baldwin (9/17)
  42. 3-D QBO visualization from Kevin Hamilton (9/17)
  43. Kaeser, Joe, 2015: Industry Can Lead on Climate Change, New York Times (Sept. 22, 2015)  (9/24)
  44. Gillis, Justin and Nicholas St. Fleur, 2015: Global Companies Joining Climate Change Efforts, New York Times (Sept. 23, 2015)  (9/24)
  45. Homework 3, due Oct. 1 (9/24)
  46. Homework 4, due Oct. 26 (10/19)
  47. Porter, Eduardo, 2015: Bringing Republicans to the Climate Change Table, New York Times (Oct. 13, 2015) (10/19)
  48. Reed, Stanley, 2015: Oil and Gas Companies Make Statement in Support of U.N. Climate Goals, New York Times (Oct. 16, 2015)  (10/19)
  49. The Northern Hemisphere Just Set a Cyclone Record, by Brian Kahn (10/22)
  50. Robock, Alan, 1985: An updated climate feedback diagram. Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 66, 786-787.  (10/26)
  51. The Sheep Albedo Feedback  (10/26)
  52. Science at the Bleating Edge  (10/26)
  53. NOAA Long-Range Forecasting Discussion  (10/26)
  54. Kirtman, Ben, et al., 2013:  Prediction from Weeks to Decades. Chapter 8 in Climate Science for Serving Society, Ghassem R. Asrar and James W. Hurrell, Eds., (Springer, Dordrecht), 205-235.  (10/26)
  55. NOAA MJO forecast discussion  (10/26)
  56. QBO effects on seasonal forecasts  (10/26)
  57. ECMWF Forecast Products  (10/26)
  58. ECMWF Monthly Forecasting  (10/26)
  59. ECMWF Niño3.4 forecasts  (10/26)
  60. NOAA Official Forecast Products  (10/26)
  61. NOAA Medium Range Forecasts  (10/26)
  62. NOAA 30-day forecasts  (10/26)
  63. NOAA 3-month outlooks  (10/26)
  64. National Multi-Model Ensemble  (10/26)
  65. NOAA Probability of Exceedence Maps  (10/26)
  66. NOAA Climate Prediction Center  (10/26)
  67. Farmer's Almanac Winter Forecast  (10/26)
  68. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2014-2015  (10/26)
  69. 2014-2015 Winter Observations (10/26)
  70. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2015-2016  (10/26)
  71. Homework 5, due Nov. 9 (10/26)
  72. NOAA Interactive Data Viewer for Greenhouse Gases  (10/26)
  73. Latest Mauna Loa CO2 record  (10/26)
  74. Greenland is melting away, New York Times, Oct. 27, 2015  (10/29)
  75. Deser, C., A. S. Phillips, M. A. Alexander, and B. V. Smoliak, 2014: Projecting North American Climate over the next 50 years: Uncertainty due to internal variability. J. Climate, 27, 2271-2296, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00451.1.  (10/29)
  76. Homework 5 teams, due Nov. 9 (11/5)
  77. Inside Climate News report on climate change based on COP21 pledges (11/5)
  78. The Tough Realities of the Paris Climate Talks, by Steven E. Koonin, New York Times, Nov. 4, 2015 (11/5)
  79. A nudge could cause 3 m of sea level rise (11/5)
  80. China Burns Much More Coal Than Reported, Complicating Climate Talks, by Chris Buckley, New York Times, Nov. 3, 2015 (11/5)
  81. Keep it in the Ground Act (11/5)
  82. Homework 6, due Nov. 19 (11/9)
  83. Revenue-neutral carbon tax proposals, Washington Post, Nov. 10, 2015 (11/12)
  84. Porter, Eduardo, 2015: India Is Caught in a Climate Change Quandary, New York Times, Nov. 10, 2015 (11/12)
  85. Wong, Edward, 2015: A Glut of Coal-Fired Plants Raises Doubts About China’s Energy Priorities, New York Times, Nov. 11, 2015 (11/12)
  86. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Top $450 Billion Annually, Study Says, Inside Climate News, November 12, 2015 (11/16)
  87. Gurian, Scott, 2015: The List: Ten Ways Climate Change Could Impact Life in the Garden State, NJspotlight.com, Nov. 16, 2015 (11/19)
  88. Homework 7, due Nov. 30 (11/23)
  89. Oral Presentation Schedule  (11/23)
  90. Oral presentation evaluation form  (11/23)
  91. How not to make a good PowerPoint  (11/23)
  92. Hansen, James, 2015: Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I  (11/30)
  93. Course Evaluation - Must Complete by December 15  (11/30)
  94. Schwartz, John, 2015:  On Tether to Fossil Fuels, Nations Speak With Money, New York Times, Dec. 5, 2015 (12/7)

Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on December 6, 2015