Classes

Instructor: Brian Farrell Description: Physical concepts necessary to understand atmospheric structure and motion. Phenomena studied include the formation of clouds and precipitation, solar and terrestrial radiation, dynamical balance of the large-scale wind, and the origin...

Instructor: Eli Tziperman Description: Climate and climate variability phenomena and dynamical mechanisms over multiple time scales, using dynamical system tools and a hierarchical modeling approach. Energy balance and greenhouse, El Niño, thermohaline circulation, abrupt...

Instructor: Robin Wordsworth Description: Atmospheric radiative transfer, including stellar properties, spectroscopy, gray and real gas calculations, Mie theory and scattering, satellite retrievals, and radiative-convective climate modelling. Climate feedbacks: the runaway...

Instructor: Eli Tziperman Description: Topics in linear algebra which arise frequently in applications, including in the analysis of large data sets: linear equations, eigenvalue problems, principal component analysis, singular value decomposition, quadratic forms, linear...

Instructor: Brian Farrell Description: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the fundamental ideas and paradigms of modern dynamic meteorology. Although we will try to keep our study informed by observations of the atmosphere, we can not in the time allotted do...