General Information

Goals for this Course

• Implement your own (simple) climate model from scratch. We teach you everything(!) that is necessary.

• Get an idea about climate physics.

• Get an idea how to describe the physics with ODEs and PDEs.

• Learn how to numerically solve ODEs and PDEs.

• Learn how to implement the numerical algorithms.

• Learn how to set up simple climate simulations.

• Learn how to discuss the results and understand the limitations of the modeling.

• Use everything learned to extend the model.

Structure of the Course

• We have 6 pre-made milestones (sub-projects) with the following structure:

  1. "Theory phase": Lectures that provide all theoretical information necessary to reach the milestone.

  2. "Implementation phase": Hands-on programming in groups. We are here to help: can be used to sit together and work on the milestones, ask questions, discussions, etc.

• In the final part of the lecture, there will be the mysterious milestone 7.

• For the milestones 1-6 solutions in Julia and Python are available and made accessible.

• Below you can find the schedule.

Examination

• Milestone 1-6 are not graded. Their purpose is to learn the climate model and prepare for milestone 7.

• Milestone 7 is free style and the topic chosen by students with a final (Jupyter/Pluto notebook) presentation at the end of the semester that will be graded (pass/fail). Again, we are here to help: we will guide and supervise the selection of topics for milestone 7, and give advice and support during the hands-on phase.

• Admission criterion for oral exam: Pass milestone 7.

• Per person oral exam (most likely in the first week of August).

Organization of the course

• All announcements and internal communications will be done via ILIAS!

• Make sure that you can log in there and check "general information".

• If you have a question, please post in ILIAS questions/comments section.