# Climate Laboratory chapters/lectures/notebooks

Numbers in italics correspond to suggested relevant sections of Hartmann's Global Physical Climatology

1. Intro: Climate models and the global energy budget *(Chapter 1)*
- Introduction to climate models
- Observed energy budget
- Simple Earth radiation calculation (Earth's temperature with and without greenhouse effect) *Note: this is very introduction-y for students with prior python experience*

2. Modeling the Global Energy Budget
- Global energy budget
- Absorbed SW and albedo
- Equilibrium temperature

3. The Climate System and Climate Models
- Components of climate models *(1.6-1.9, 11.3-11.6)*
- Simulation vs parameterization *(11.3.2, 11.3.3, 11.3.4)*
- Taxonomy of Climate models

4. The CESM
- Intro to CESM
- Components and simulation setup
- Exploring input and output data from CESM

5. Simple Climate Models with climlab
- Energy balance models *(4.1-4.4)
- Climate change scenario in energy balance model

6. Review of Radiation *(Chapters 2.1-2.5 and 3.1-3.5)*
- Emission temperature and lapse rates
- SW radiation
- LW radiation and absorption spectra

7. Elementary Greenhouse Models *(Chapter 2.5-2.6, 3.1-3.7)*
- Single layer
- two-layer model
- radiative forcing

8. Grey radiation modeling with climlab *(Chapter 3.1-3.8)*
- Annual, global mean temperature profile
- Radiative forcing in 30-layer model
- Radiative equilibrium
- Radiative-Convective equilibrium *(3.9-3.10)*

9. Modelling non-scattering radiative transfer (3.7-3.8)
- Grey gas modelling
- band-averaged radiation models in climlab

10. Spectral bands
- Observed spectra
- Water vapour and parameterization
- modeling spectral bands with climlab

11. Radiative equilibrium
- single-column radiation model
- effects of different gases on radiative equilibrium *(1.3, 13.2-13.8?)*

12. Radiative-convective equilibrium *(3.10)*

13. Climate sensitivity and feedbacks *(10, 11.8)*

14. Transient and equilibrium responses in CESM *(13.10-13.12)*

15. Toy models of transient warming (11.1-11.2)

16. Clouds and cloud feedbacks *(3.9-3.13, 10.7)*

17. Insolation *(2.7-2.8, 12.2)*

18. Orbital variations, insolation and ice ages *(12.5-12.6)*

19. Heat transport *(2.8-2.9)*

20. 1D energy balance model *(2.8)*

21. Seasonal cycle of surface temperature *(4.7-4.8)*

22. Diffusion models

23. Ice-albedo feedback and Snowball Earth *(10.40, 9?)*

24. Surface energy budget *(4, 4.5-4.6)*

25. Land-ocean contrasts (heating)

26. Water budget and global climate *(5)*

Chapters/topics of Hartmann's book not covered by notebooks:

- Atmospheric general circulation (6)
- Ocean general circulation (7)
- Natural variability and climate modes (8)
- Coupled atmosphere-ocean processes (11.9)
- Some aspects of natural climate change, e.g. volanoes (12.3-12.4)
- Some aspects of anthropogenic change, including geoengineering (13.9-13.17)
- Some aspects of the thermodynamics of the atmosphere (hydrostatic balance etc, 1.4)