The Art of Climate Modeling

4 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory and Enforced Prerequisite: None (4 credits) The course introduces the newest climate modeling techniques by surveying the design decisions in atmospheric General Circulation Models (GCMs), the trends in GCM and dynamical core modeling and how GCMs are coupled. It is built upon hands-on GCM modeling and data projects, journal paper discussions, lectures, shared cyber-infrastructure and computational tools.