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# 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)