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# Course structure and Outline

TODO: 
- Set-up to notebooks to run on local servers
- decide if we're using climlab, or alternative build-your-own-climate-model software. 
- create notebooks for the atmospheric/ocean circulation sections (weeks 7 and 8)
- decide on and/or create assignments, including mid-term
- create scope/grading rubric for final project


### Week 1 (11-17th Jan): Introduction _(Phil/Rachel)_
- Introduction to course
- Set class times
- Troubleshoot any issues with jupyter notebooks
- Set up slack channel
- Reading: Chapter 1 of Hartmann (Introduction to the Climate System)
- Notebooks: Notebook 1 [Climate models, the global energy budget, and Fun with Python](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/models-budgets-fun.html)


### Week 2 (18-24th Jan): Intro to climate models and the Global Energy Budget _(Phil)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann Chapters 1 (Introduction to the Climate System) and 2 (Global Energy Balance) of Hartmann
#### Notebooks:
- [Notebook 2: Modeling the global energy budget](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/zero-dim-ebm.html)
- [Notebook 3: The climate system and climate models](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/climate-system-models.html)
- [Notebook 4: Introducing the Community Earth System Model (CESM)](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/introducing-cesm.html) - **currently downloading the data doesn't work - we may need data locally**

#### Assignments:
[Assignment 1: Climate change in the zero-dimensional EBM](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/assignment-zero-dim-ebm.html)


### Week 3 (25-31st Jan): Radiative Transfer _(Phil)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann chapters 3 (Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Climate) and 4 (Energy Balance of the Surface)
#### Notebooks:
- [??? Notebook 5: Climlab](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/climlab-intro.html)  - or do we want to use the other climate model building notebooks?
- [Notebook 6: Radiation](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/radiation.html)
- [Notebook 7: Greenhouse effect](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/elementary-greenhouse.html)

#### Assignments:
[Assignment 2: Global average budgets in the CESM pre-industrial control simulation](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/assignment-cesm-control.html)

### Week 4 (1-7th Feb): Radiative equilibrium and Climate Change _(Phil)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann chapers 3 (Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Climate) and 13 (Anthropogenic Climate Change)

#### Notebooks:
**Maybe don't want to assign ALL of these notebooks in one week? Or one of them becomes an assignment?**
- [???Notebook 8: Grey radiation with climlab](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/grey-radiation-climlab.html)
- [Notebook 9: Radiative transfer](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/radiative-transfer.html)
- [Notebook 10: Spectral bands](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/spectral-bands.html)
- [Notebook 11: Radiative equilibrium](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/radeq.html)
- [Notebook 12: Radiative-convective equilibrium](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/rce.html)

#### Assignments:

### Week 5: 8-14th Feb: Modelling feedbacks and transient warming _(Phil)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann chapters 10 (Climate sensitivity) and 11 (Global Climate Models) 
- [Causes of Higher Climate Sensitivity in CMIP6 Models](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL085782)

#### Notebooks:
- [Notebook 13: Climate sensitivity](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/sensitivity-feedback.html)
- [Notebook 14: Transient warming in CESM](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/transient-cesm.html)
- [Notebook 15: Toy models of transient warming](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/transient-toy.html)
#### Assignments:

### 15-21st Feb
---MID-TERM BREAK---

### Week 6: 22-28th Feb: Modelling climate change _(Rachel)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann chapter 13 (Anthropogenic Climate Change)
- [Context for interpreting equilibrium climate sensitivity and transient climate response from the CMIP6 Earth system models](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/26/eaba1981)
#### Notebooks:
- [Notebook 19: Heat transport](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/heat-transport.html)
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#### Assignments: 
Mid-term

### Week 7: (1-7th Mar) Modelling atmospheric general circulation _(Rachel)_
#### Reading:
- Hartmann chapter 6 (Atmosphere General Circulation and Climate)
- [Model Hierarchies for Understanding Atmospheric Circulation](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018RG000607)


#### Notebooks:
- [Notebook 20: The one-dimensional energy balance model](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/one-dim-ebm.html)
- [Notebook 21: Modeling the seasonal cycle of surface temperature](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/seasonal-cycle.html)
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- New notebook: Atmospheric circulation in the CESM **need to create!!**

#### Assignments:
Students choose and summarize final project (we will give each student resources over next few weeks to help them individually with their projects)

### Week 8 (8-14th Mar) Modelling ocean circulation and internal variability _(Rachel)_
#### Reading:
Hartmann chapters 7 (Ocean General Circulation and Climate) and 8 (Intraseasonal and Interannual variability) 
[The Community Earth System Model (CESM) Large Ensemble Project: A Community Resource for Studying Climate Change in the Presence of Internal Climate Variability](https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/96/8/bams-d-13-00255.1.xml)

#### Notebooks:
- analysis of ocean variability and circulation **need to create!!**
- analysis of CESM large ensemble data **need to create!!**

#### Assignments: 
- Proof of concept for projects: download/read in data; get basic model setup running etc - time to troubleshoot.

### Week 9 (15-21th Mar): Climate model hierachy and uses _(Rachel)_

#### Reading:
Hartmann chapters 9 (Paleoclimate), 12 (Natural Climate Change) and 13 (Anthropogenic Climate Change)
[A perspective on climate model hierarchies](https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2017MS001038)

#### Notebooks:
- [Notebook 23: Ice-albedo feedback and Snowball Earth in the EBM](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/albedo-snowball.html)
- [Notebook 24: The surface energy balance](https://brian-rose.github.io/ClimateLaboratoryBook/courseware/surface-energy-balance.html)


### Week 10 (22-28th Mar): Course summary and work on individual projects _(Phil/Rachel)_

### Week 11 (29th Mar - 4th Apr): Work on individual projects _(Phil/Rachel)_

### Week 12 (5th - 11th Apr): Work on individual projects _(Phil/Rachel)_

### Week 13 (12-14th Apr): Work on individual projects _(Phil/Rachel)_



Term finishes: April 14th

Exams finish: April 29th