Educational Activities IMEIO- UPM
Title: Paleoclimate, glacier surface mass balance and coupled climate-ice sheet models [ModClim] |
Responsible of the activity: Francisco Navarro, francisco.navarro@upm.es |
Lecturers: Jorge Álvarez Solas (UCM), Alex Robinson (UCM) |
Total number of hours: 15 |
Location: Facultad de Ciencias Físicas-UCM o ETSI de Telecomunicación-UPM |
Dates: 7-11 March 2016 |
NOTE: This course, together with that of code DinGlac (15h, 11‐15 January 2016), form an ensemble designed, for maximum benefit, to be taken together, though they can also be taken independently of each other.
Listing of contents:
Part I: Paleoclimatology (Jorge Álvarez Solas, UCM)
* Different definitions of climate
* Meteorology vs. climatology
* Climate models and space‐time resolution
* Climate dynamics
* Geological scales: carbon cycle and Walker’s feedback * Energy balances
* The young Sun paradox
* Global glaciations
* Earth’s orbital parameters
* Glacial‐interglacial cycles
* Rapid variability
* The role of the Cryosphere
* Simple models
* The future at slow path
* Hierarchy of models
Part IIa: Surface mass balance modeling (Alex Robinson, UCM)
* Introduction
* Glacier and ice sheet surface mass balance
* Measurements and approximations
* Feedbacks and time scales
Part IIb: Coupled climate‐ice sheet modeling (Alex Robinson, UCM)
* The Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS)
* Climate and surface forcing model
* Atmospheric equations
* Ensemble generation
* Past evolution of the GIS * Future stability of the GIS
Lecture notes