An introduction to climate dynamics and modelling

Laurent Li (李肇新) (li@lmd.jussieu.fr) http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/~li

Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Ecole Normale Supérieure
Ecole Polytechnique
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6)
Paris, France

Abstract

Numerical modeling plays a more and more important role for climate studies during recent years. This short course will introduce the physical basis of the climate system (mainly on the atmospheric component) and technical methods used for climate modeling. Parallel to the main course, practical exercises on a local computer network will be also proposed. The teaching will take roughly 12 hours for main courses, and about 8 hours for exercises.

Main references

Main materials

Additional materials

  • The directory "software_divers" contains several useful softwares for PC under Linux (Mandriva):
    "netcdf_g95.tar.gz",
    "nco.tar.gz",
    "g95-x86-linux.tgz"
  • Rossby equation model:
    Press here for slides in PDF
    Press here for Fortran model,
    Press here for an initial state;
    Press here for a GRADS script doing animation
  • Shallow-water equation model:
    Press here for slides in PDF;
    Press here for Fortran model;
    Press here for a GRADS script doing animation

    • Some GCM results