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==Winter 2008 Course Page==

[[Climate Change: Winter 2008]]


==Basic Course Information==

This course will be student-driven, faculty guided.  Students will be expected to develop and deliver two lectures.  This will give us 12 lectures, after the break.  The lectures should be, approximately, 1 hour in length, and we should have an hour of discussion.  So we should look at finding a 2 hour slot.  

The first lecture(s) should be drawn from the Foundation Readings.  The concentration should be on the conservation equation for water in the atmosphere, identification of source and sink terms (exchanges across interfaces), the role of water in the energy balance of the climate. The foundational lectures should include, specifically, the [http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC003_Betts_Hydrometeorology_Model_Evaluation_BAMS_2004.pdf Betts' paper], which is an excellent analysis of the integrated land-surface / atmosphere interaction, and the use of model information in analysis.


Other papers to be lectured on are


[http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC007_Hartmann_Convection_Energy_Balance_JClim_2001.pdf Hartman: tropical Convection and Energy Balance]


[http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC004_Arakawa_Cumulus_Parameterization_JClim_2004.pdf Arakawa: Review of Cumulus Parameterization]

[http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC014_Boville_Precip_CAM3_JClim_2006.pdf Boville: Precipitation in Community Climate System Model]


[http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC008_Held_Hydrological_Global_Warming_JClim_2006.pdf Held: Hydrological cycle response in climate change]

[http://climateknowledge.org/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC013_Stephens_Cloud_Feedback_JClim_2005.pdf Stephens: Cloud feedback in climate change]

==Water in the Atmosphere==


===Foundation Reading===

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC001_Hartmann_PhysClim_Hydro_cycle_C5.pdf Hartmann: Chapter 5: Hydrological Cycle]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC002_Piexoto_Oort_PhyClim_Hydro_cycle_C12.pdf Piexoto and Oort: Chapter 12: Hydrological Cycle]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC010_Pierrehumbert_Relative_Humidity_Atmosphere_GlobCirc_C6_2007.pdf Pierrehumbert: Relative Humidity in the Atmosphere]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC003_Betts_Hydrometeorology_Model_Evaluation_BAMS_2004.pdf Betts: Understanding Hydrometeorology with models and assimilation]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC005_Bony_Feedback_Processes_JClim_2006.pdf Bony: Understanding climate feedback processes]



===Observations and Theory===

====Reading List====

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC003_Betts_Hydrometeorology_Model_Evaluation_BAMS_2004.pdf Betts: Understanding Hydrometeorology with models and assimilation]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC007_Hartmann_Convection_Energy_Balance_JClim_2001.pdf Hartman: tropical Convection and Energy Balance]





===Modeling===

====Reading List====

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC004_Arakawa_Cumulus_Parameterization_JClim_2004.pdf Arakawa: Review of Cumulus Parameterization]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC014_Boville_Precip_CAM3_JClim_2006.pdf Boville: Precipitation in Community Climate System Model]



===Current Issues===

====Reading List====

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC008_Held_Hydrological_Global_Warming_JClim_2006.pdf Held: Hydrological cycle response in climate change]

[http://climateknowledge.org:16080/figures/Rood_Climate_Change_AOSS480_Documents/QC013_Stephens_Cloud_Feedback_JClim_2005.pdf Stephens: Cloud feedback in climate change]


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