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

  1. Syllabus (9/8, revised 10/26)
  2. Register to vote (9/8)
  3. "The fine art of baloney detection," Chapter 12 from The Demon-Haunted World : Science As a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan, 1995 (9/8)
  4. Lorenz, Edward, 1972: "The Butterfly Effect" (9/8)
  5. Errata for textbook  (9/8)
  6. Daily sea ice from NSIDC (9/8)
  7. Term Paper Instructions (9/8)
  8. Climate Prediction Center Global Monsoons website  (9/8)
  9. Last Week with John Oliver, Climate Change Debate, 97 scientists vs. 3 deniers (9/8)
  10. Skeptical Science website, with answers to all criticisms of global warming science (9/8)
  11. Trenberth, K. E. (1983), What are the seasons? Bull. Amer. Meteorol. Soc., 64, 1276-1282. (9/8)
  12. Homework 1, due Sept. 19 (9/8)
  13. List of students in class, with phone and e-mail (9/12)
  14. Textbook Figures (9/12)
  15. Richard Alley 2009 talk at AGU on "The Biggest Control Knob, Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History" (9/12)
  16. COMET module on climatology (9/12)
  17. COMET course on climate change (9/12)
  18. Nelson, Robert A., 2003: Guide for Metric Practice, Physics Today, 56, No. 8 (Buyers’ Guide, August), BG15-BG16. (9/12)
  19. Metric System Review (9/12)
  20. How To Do Problems (9/12)
  21. Climate Explorer (9/12)
  22. Seasons and Elliptic Simulator (9/12)
  23. NCEI State of the Climate (9/12)
  24. Climate.gov (9/12)
  25. NCAR Climate Data Guide (9/12)
  26. NASA Causes of Climate Change (9/12)
  27. Encyclical of Pope Francis on Climate Change, Laudato Si  (9/12)
  28. PETM (9/12)
  29. Atmospheric Composition Powerpoint - 91 Mb (9/12)
  30. To draw your own figures of greenhouse gas concentrations:  NOAA Interactive Atmospheric Data Visualization  (9/12)
  31. Humidity variables, and their calculation with a skew T - log p diagram (9/12)
  32. Water Variables PowerPoint (9/12)
  33. Energy Balance PowerPoint (9/15)
  34. Homework 2, due Oct. 3 (9/19)
  35. IPCC PowerPoint (9/19)
  36. Climate Observations PowerPoint (9/26)
  37. Paleoclimate PowerPoint (9/26)
  38. MITx: 12.340x Global Warming Science (10/3)
  39. Glaciers Then and Now PowerPoint (10/3)
  40. Eliminating Uncertainty One Cloud at a Time (10/6)
  41. Carbon Counter (footprints of different automobiles) (10/6)
  42. Homework 3, due Oct. 17 (10/10)
  43. Soil moisture PowerPoint (updated 10/15)  (10/10)
  44. NCAR and UCAR videos  (10/13)
  45. Climate Signals: Hurricane Matthew  (10/13)
  46. Fleeing the Coast Before the Storm, Only to Be Trapped Inland, New York Times, Oct. 10, 2016:  Hurricane Matthew  (10/13)
  47. "Clean" Coal  (10/17)
  48. Lin, B., P. W. Stackhouse Jr., P. Minnis, B. A. Wielicki, Y. Hu, W. Sun, T.-F. Fan, and L. M. Hinkelman, 2008: Assessment of global annual atmospheric energy balance from satellite observations, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16114, doi:10.1029/2008JD009869. (10/17)
  49. Nations, Fighting Powerful Refrigerant That Warms Planet, Reach Landmark Deal, New York Times, Oct. 16, 2016  (10/17)
  50. Climate Reference Network Instruments (10/20)
  51. AMOC slowdown: Connecting the dots  (10/20)
  52. Homework 4, due Nov. 14 (10/27)
  53. NOAA El Niño Page (10/27)
  54. PAGES   News, El Niño edition, August 2013 (10/27)
  55. El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (10/27)
  56. North American Multi-Model Ensemble (10/27)
  57. Pacific-North American Pattern (PNA), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (10/27)
  58. North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (10/27)
  59. Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), from State Climatologist of North Carolina (10/27)
  60. Sir Gilbert Walker (10/27)
  61. QBO animation from Mark Baldwin (10/27)
  62. 3-D QBO visualization from Kevin Hamilton (10/27)
  63. Homework 5, due Nov. 28 (10/27)
  64. Rutgers Photochemical Assessment Monitoring (PAM) Site  (10/31)
  65. Years of Living Dangerously (10/31)
  66. NOAA MJO forecast discussion  (10/31)
  67. Kalnay, E., M. Kanamitsu, R. Kistler, W. Collins, D. Deaven, L. Gandin, M. Iredell, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, Y. Zhu, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, W. Higgins, J. Janowiak, K. C. Mo, C. Ropelewski, J. Wang, A. Leetmaa, R. Reynolds, R. Jenne, and D. Joseph, 1996: The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 77, 437–471. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:TNYRP>2.0.CO;2   (10/31)
  68. Kistler, R., E. Kalnay, W. Collins, S. Saha, G. White, J. Woollen, M. Chelliah, W. Ebisuzaki, M. Kanamitsu, V. Kousky, H. van den Dool, R. Jenne, and M. Fiorino, 2001: The NCEP-NCAR 50-Year Reanalysis: Monthly Means CD-ROM and Documentation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 247-268. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0247:TNNYRM>2.3.CO;2  PDF file (10/31)
  69. Dee DP, Uppala SM, Simmons AJ, Berrisford P, Poli P, Kobayashi S, Andrae U, Balmaseda MA, Balsamo G, Bauer P, Bechtold P, Beljaars ACM, van de Berg L, Bidlot J, Bormann N, Delsol C, Dragani R, Fuentes M, Geer AJ, Haimberger L, Healy SB, Hersbach H, Holm EV, Isaksen L, Kallberg P, Kohler M, Matricardi M, McNally AP, Monge-Sanz BM, Morcrette J-J, Park B-K, Peubey C, de Rosnay P, Tavolato C, Thepaut J-N, Vitart F., 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 137, 553–597. DOI:10.1002/qj.828  PDF file (10/31)
  70. Long-range Forecasting PowerPoint  (11/3)
  71. NOAA Official Forecast Products  (11/3)
  72. NOAA Long-Range Forecasting Discussion  (11/3)
  73. NOAA MJO forecast discussion  (11/3)
  74. NOAA Medium Range Forecasts  (11/3)
  75. NOAA 30-day forecasts  (11/3)
  76. NOAA 3-month outlooks  (11/3)
  77. National Multi-Model Ensemble  (11/3)
  78. NOAA Probability of Exceedence Maps (11/3)
  79. NOAA Climate Prediction Center  (11/3)
  80. International Research Institute Seasonal Climate Forecasts (11/3)
  81. ECMWF Forecast Products  (11/3)
  82. ECMWF Monthly Forecasting  (11/3)
  83. ECMWF Niño3.4 forecasts  (11/3)
  84. The Weather Channel Winter Forecast (11/3)
  85. Farmer's Almanac Winter Forecast  (11/3)
  86. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2013-2014  (11/3)
  87. Past Winter Observations (11/3)
  88. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2014-2015  (11/3)
  89. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2015-2016  (11/3)
  90. Accuweather Winter Forecast 2016-2017  (11/3)
  91. Before the Flood, with Leonardo DiCaprio  (11/3)
  92. Homework 6, due Nov. 10 (11/3)
  93. Global Warming PowerPoint  (11/7)
  94. CO2 balloons movie  (11/7)
  95. GCM climate movie (11/10)
  96. Homework 7, due Nov. 17 (11/10)
  97. Review of Before the Flood  (11/10)
  98. Trump wins U.S. Presidency! Climate Skeptics Rejoice! (11/10)
  99. Paris Effect  (11/10)
  100. COP 22, November 7-18, 2016, Marrakech, Morocco  (11/10)
  101. Homework 7 teams, due Nov. 17 (11/10)
  102. Geoengineering PowerPoint  (11/14)
  103. Global Carbon Budget 2016  (11/14)
  104. Homework 8 - EXTRA CREDIT, due Dec. 5 (11/21)
  105. Futurama on geoengineering  (11/21)
  106. Volcanic Eruptions PowerPoint  (11/21)
  107. Oral presentation evaluation form  (11/21)
  108. How not to make a good PowerPoint  (11/21)
  109. Ozone Hole PowerPoint  (11/21)
  110. Futurama video (11/22)
  111. Futurama video (11/22)
  112. Oral Presentation Schedule  (11/28)
  113. Oral Presentation Form (online)  (11/28)
  114. Nuclear Winter PowerPoint (11/28)
  115. Homework 9 - EXTRA CREDIT, due Dec. 5 (12/1)
  116. Course Evaluation - Must Complete by December 15  (12/5)

Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu) - Last updated on December 2, 2016