Klimakoffer: Build Your Own Climate Model

Course Description

A course about the basics of climate modeling, numerical methods, and scientific computations. The objective is that the participants implement a two-dimensional Energy Balance Model to simulate Earth's climate.

Earth’s climate is changing due to human activity. Therefore, the ability to predict future climate change is of utmost importance if we want to reduce human interference with the climate system (climate change mitigation) and our vulnerability to the harmful effects of climate change (climate change adaptation). In this course, the participants will learn the basics about climate modeling, numerical methods, and scientific computations. With this knowledge, they will implement a two-dimensional (2D) Energy Balance Model (EBM) from scratch to simulate the evolution of the temperature on planet Earth as a function of the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere, the solar forcing, and the geographical conditions.

Audience

Bachelor (final year) and master (early) students of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.

Disclaimer

The whole course material is open source and can be freely used for educational purpose: https://github.com/numsim-group/klimakoffer.