The University of Chicago
Global Warming II: Create Your Own Models in Python
The University of Chicago

Global Warming II: Create Your Own Models in Python

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David Archer

Instructor: David Archer

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3 weeks at 10 hours a week
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There are 5 modules in this course

This class is intended to complement a Coursera class called Global Warming I: The Science and Modeling of Climate Change, which presents much of the background to the material here. In this class you'll be using spreadsheets (maybe) and Python (definitely) to do some simple numerical calculations on topics in Earth System Science. The model you'll be working on this week is based on material from Unit 3 of that class, called First Climate Model.

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2 videos6 readings1 quiz1 programming assignment1 peer review

The ideas behind this model were explained in Unit 7, Feedbacks, in Part I of this class. First we get to generate simple linear "parameterization" functions of planetary albedo and the latitude to which ice forms (colder = lower latitude ice). Second, for any given value of the solar constant, L, we'll use iteration to find consistent values of albedo and T, to show the effect of the ice albedo feedback on Earth's temperature, running away to fall into the dreaded "snowball Earth".

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1 video3 readings1 quiz1 programming assignment1 peer review

Ice flows like extra-thick molasses, downhill. The shape of the ice sheet (altitude versus distance across) is determined by the relationship between ice surface slope and the flow rate of the ice.

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1 video3 readings1 quiz1 programming assignment1 peer review

Planetary rotation and fluid flow were explained in Part I of this class, Unit 6, on Weather and Climate.

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1 video1 reading2 quizzes3 programming assignments1 peer review

Background for this model was presented in Part I of this class, Unit 9, The Perturbed Carbon Cycle.

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1 video4 readings1 quiz1 programming assignment1 peer review

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David Archer
The University of Chicago
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