ATMOSPHERIC &
OCEANIC SCIENCES 910- Section 1:
Climate Present
and Past:
A synoptic climatology view
(1 credit)
Spring 2003
WELCOME!
- Is this the course for me?
- This course is open to any graduate student in geology, geography, archaeology, or atmospheric science. Others with permission.
- This seminar could be described as an experiment in "thinking outside the box", or climate and climatic change from a different, broader viewpoint than the usual. We will consider what climate is and is not, some historical events involving climate, and how to look at climate at high resolution in time and space. The seminar will include a series of working sessions on how to model climate on a personal computer. We won't try to "grind the fine end of nothing down to a point." Prof. R.A. Bryson
- The class will begin on
Thursday, 23 January 2003 at 1:20 PM in Room 811 of the Atmospheric and
Space Sciences Building at 1225 W. Dayton St. (see accompanying
picture)
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Lecture Notes
- Visit this site for the lecture outline for the day.
Jan 23 Climate defined
‑ Input: insolation, turbidity, albedo
‑ output: gases, clouds, aerosols etc.
Refs:
Bryson, R. A., 1968: ... All Other Factors Being Constant'...A Reconciliation of Several
Theories of Climatic Change," Weatherwise, 21(2):56‑61.
Bryson, R.A., 1997:
"The paradigm of climatology: an essay." Bulletin of
the
American Meteorological Society 78(3):449‑455.
Jan 30 Airstream Climatology
‑ air masses as stages in airstreams
‑ multimodal data
‑ nonstationarity
Refs:
Bryson, R.A., 1966: "Air masses, Streamlines and the Boreal
Forest",‑Geographical Bulletin (Canada) 8:228‑269.
Feb 6 Airstream Climatology
‑ monsoons and the ITC
‑ montane climates, coastal climates
Feb 13 Natural regions and seasons, singularities
Feb 20 Climate change‑ evidence
Refs:
Bryson, R.A. and A.M Swain, 1981: "Holocene Variations of Monsoon
Rainfall in Rajasthan." Quaternary Research 16:135‑145.
Feb 27 Climate change‑ evidence, proxy interpretation
Mar 6 RAB in OAXACA‑ Climate change‑ evidence Mr. Ruter
Mar 13 Causes of change, hypotheses
Mar 20 RECESS
Mar 27 Global change times, global synchroneity
Refs:
Wendland, W. M. and R.A. Bryson, 1974: "Dating Climatic Episodes of the
Holocene." Quaternary Research 4:9‑24.
Apr 3 Climate and people
Refs:
Bryson, Reid A., and Robert U. Bryson
1997
High Resolution Simulations of Regional Holocene Climate: North Africa and the
Near East. In Third Millennium BC
Climate Change and Old World Collapse, edited by H.N. Dalfes, G. Kukla, and H. Weiss, pp.
565‑593. NATO ASI Series, Vol. 149, Springer‑Verlag, Berlin.
Apr
10 Modeling Climate Lab, Intro to Archaeoclimatology.
Apr 17 RAB in Central Asia Modeling Climate Lab Dr. Arzt
Apr 24 RAB in Central Asia Modeling Climate Lab Dr. Arzt
May 1 RAB in Central Asia Modeling Climate Lab Dr. Arzt
May 8 RAB in Central Asia Modeling Climate Lab Dr. Arzt
May
15 Summary. Last day. Papers due The student will be expected to turn in a
paper on some aspect of the material taught in the seminar. Normally this would
be focussed on some model from the lab work, and whether it is right, wrong or
what, and what it means about the past or future. Other topics may be chosen by
earlier discussions with Prof. Bryson.
Other reading for fun and
information.
.Bryson,
R. A. and T. J. Murray, 1977: CLIMATES OF HUNGER, University of Wisconsin
Press, June 1977. 171 p. Translated into Chinese, Spanish & Japanese.
Bryson,
R. A. and G. J. Dittberner, 1976: "A Non‑Equilibrium Model of Hemispheric
Mean Surface Temperatures," Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 33(11):2094‑2106.
Bryson, R. A. and A. M.
Swain, 198 1: "Holocene Variations of Monsoon Rainfall in Rajasthan," Quaternary Research 16(2):135‑145.
Bryson,
R.A. and V. Mitchell, 1986: "Fundamental Large Scale Spatial Structure of Mean
Precipitation in the Montane United States: Technique," In Proc. of
International Symposium on the Qinghai‑Xizang Plateau and Mountain Meteorology,
Beijing, China, May 20‑24, 1984. pp.561579.
Bryson, R.A., 1986: "Airstream
Climatology of Asia," In Proc. of International Symposium on the Qinghai‑Xizang
Plateau and Mountain Meteorology, Beijing, China, May 20‑24, 1984. pp. 604‑619.
LaFontaine,
C.V., R.A. Bryson and W.M. Wendland, 1990: "Airstream Regions of North
Africa and the Mediterranean", Jour. Climate 3(3):366‑372.
Bryson, R.A., 2000:
"Typhoon Forecasting 1944, or the Making of a Cynic", Bulletin Amer. Meteor. Sec. 81:2393‑2397
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