Climate of the Earth system

Prof. Dr. Markus Meier
Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW)
E-Mail: markus.meier@io-warnemuende.de

# Lecture overview ## General information - Lecture held by Prof. Dr. Markus Meier (markus.meier@io-warnemuende), professor in physical oceanography at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde(IOW) and Rostock University, master thesis ?? - Exercises held by Dr. Sven Karsten (sven.karsten@io-warnemuende.de) and Dr. Florian Börgel (florian.boergel@io-warnemuende.de) - about the course: 1) Climate of the Earth system (winter term) 2) Climate of the Baltic Sea region (summer school in August, on Askö, Sweden, part of the masters programm at Rostock University), [https://baltic.earth/education/summer_winter_schools/index.php.en](https://baltic.earth/education/summer_winter_schools/index.php.en) ## Information about the course Update for next year - Rostock University (master in physics): 6 ECTS (~13 lectures á 180 min, tutorials and exercises, no lecture on 3 January 2024, 4 weeks project work, project presentation on 24 January 2024) - Wednesday 13:15-14:45, 15:00-16:30 (17:00) - Hybrid format: online and in person - Language: English - Exercises will be held in Jupyter Notebooks using Python as programming language: [https://iow-lectures.pages.io-warnemuende.de/climateoftheearth/](https://iow-lectures.pages.io-warnemuende.de/climateoftheearth/) - Please provide me with your email address to send you the slides ## Content - Fundamental processes in the Earth's climate system of the atmosphere, ocean, and sea ice - Fundamental statistical analysis methods and modelling of climate variability on Earth including anthropogenic global warming and other forcings - Time series analysis, multivariate data analysis, uncertainty analysis in statistical methods and strategies for statistical analysis of instrumental observational, proxy and model data - Global radiation models - Feedback mechanisms and tipping points in the Earth's climate system - Coupled climate models for atmosphere, ocean and sea ice - Spatial and temporal internal variability of the large-scale circulation - Paleoclimate variability and climate projections - In the exercises, necessary basic knowledge in scientific programming for the modelling and analysis of Earth system data is taught ```{figure} figures/euro_cordex_dalle.png --- width: 100% name: euro-cordex-climate-simulation --- EURO-CORDEX climate simulation visualization using Dalle-3 ``` ## Literature - Courtesy: Lectures from Ulrich Cubasch, Erik Kjellström - Lecture notes from Dietmar Dommenget: [An Introduction to Climate Dynamics](https://users.monash.edu.au/~dietmard/teaching/dommenget.climate.dynamics.lecture.notes.pdf) and [An Introduction to Statistical Analysis in Climate Research](https://users.monash.edu.au/~dietmard/teaching/honours.statistics/dommenget.statistics.lecture.notes.pdf) - Daniel Wilks: Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385022-5.00001-4 - Hans von Storchand Francis W. Zwiers: Statistical Analysis in Climate Research. Cambridge University Press - Hamburger Bildungsserver ([https://bildungsserver.hamburg.de/themenschwerpunkte/klimawandel-und-klimafolgen](https://bildungsserver.hamburg.de/themenschwerpunkte/klimawandel-und-klimafolgen), only in German) ## Complementing literature - Lecture notes on Climate of the Ocean, WS 2016/2017 - Climate assessments: - global: IPCC ([https://www.ipcc.ch](https://www.ipcc.ch), open access), SROCC - regional: BACC I and II, BEAR ([https://baltic.earth](https://baltic.earth/index.php.en), open access), NOSCCA ([North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment](http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-39745-0), open acces) - Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics: - James R. Holton: An introduction to dynamic meteorology - Geoffrey K. Vallis: Climate and the oceans - Geoffrey K. Vallis: Atmospheric and oceanic fluid dynamics - Olbers, Willebrand and Eden: Ocean Dynamics, Springer (2012)