Deriving the SWM Lecture 3: Barotropic Vorticity Equations

04 May 2016 | Presentations

This lecture develops the barotropic vorticity equations for the shallow water model.  This is background lecture 2.1C in the Mathematics of Climate Modelling course.

Deriving the SWM Lecture 2: Stream Functions for Velocity Fields

04 May 2016 | Presentations

This lecture develops the formulation of the stream function for the velocity field of the shallow water equation.  his is the second in a series of short lectures on deriving the shallow water model, given by Chris Jones in 2013. 

Deriving the SWM Lecture 1: Conservation of Potential Vorticity

04 May 2016 | Presentations

This lecture develops the conservation equation for potential vorticity in the shallow water model.

Vegetation patterns in mathematical models, and vegetation patterns in Horn of Africa

21 Apr 2016 | Presentations

Visually striking large-scale spatial patterns of vegetation have been observed in semi-arid regions in the Americas, Africa and Australia. These have led to suggestions by theoretical ecologists that certain characteristics of the patterns may serve as early-warning signs of desertification....

MAA-NCS Summer Seminar Conceptual Climate Models

22 Feb 2016 | Educational Materials

MAA North Central Section Summer Seminar Conceptual Climate Models, July 22-24, 2013, Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MNSeminar home page: http://homepages.gac.edu/~hvidsten/MAASeminar/index.html 

New averaging results motivated by climate models: fat tails, oscillations, and tipping

10 Dec 2015 | Presentations

We review recent results where new averaging approaches are developed and applied in the context of systems with multiple time scales and fat tails  and in non-autonomous multiple scale systems with oscillatory forcing.  These types of systems appear in a variety of higher dimensional...

Global Warming Could Be Nonlinear

23 Nov 2015 | Presentations

It is widely acknowledged that many components of the Earth's climate system exhibit nonlinear behavior when forced, with examples ranging from ice sheets to ocean circulations to savanna. These changes, as profound as they are, are not expected to greatly impact global climate, as...

Global Warming Could Be Nonlinear

23 Nov 2015 | Presentations

It is widely acknowledged that many components of the Earth's climate system exhibit nonlinear behavior when forced, with examples ranging from ice sheets to ocean circulations to savanna. These changes, as profound as they are, are not expected to greatly impact global climate, as...

Where's the Math in Climate Science?

09 Nov 2015 | Presentations

Abstract: Climate science is dominated by the use of large-scale models, of which there are only 30 or so around the world. It might then seem that the need for mathematics is limited to areas that directly support the operation of such models. I will explain, by digging into the way the models...

Mathematics and Climate Research Network - An Example of a Successful Community-Building Effort

19 Oct 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Colin James Grudzien

Slides Hans Kaper prepared for a talk on October 1, 2015, titled "The Mathematics and Climate Research Network (MCRN) - An Example of a Successful Community-Building Effort."  It was part of the MPE 2013+ Workshop on Education for the Planet Earth of Tomorrow, September...

Tipping points and power cuts

18 Jun 2015 | Presentations

Who, or what, will tip the big climate models?

18 Jun 2015 | Presentations

ICMS Tipping Points: Fundamentals and Applications

13 Jun 2015 | Workshops

Objectives: This workshop (September, 2013) brings together mathematicians and statisticians, whose research expertise is relevant to investigating threshold behaviour in complex environmental systems, with the climate scientists and ecologists who exploit mathematical modelling in their research...

Minimal Complexity Paleoclimate Modeling: Connection between the carbon cycle and glacial cycles

18 May 2015 | Educational Materials

Annotated bibliography by Samantha Oestreicher for Minimal Complexity Paleoclimate Modeling Concerned with the Connection between the Carbon Cycle and the Glacial Cycles. 

Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference - Day 2 Afternoon Session

12 May 2015 | Presentations

Charles Jackson, University of Texas, AustinDual-state Behavior of the Community Climate System ModelIce age climate between 80,000 and 11,000 years ago experienced abrupt (< 10 year) global-scale climate transitions every few thousand years. Evidence and theory suggests such behavior may be...

Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference

12 May 2015 | Workshops

The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, the Office of Research,College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics, Department of Geography/Atmospheric Science Program, and The...

Midwest Mathematics and Climate Conference

12 May 2015 | Workshops

The conference is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications, the Office of Research,College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Mathematics, Department of Geography/Atmospheric Science Program, and The...

Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate at UMN - Lecture 23

12 May 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Arjen Doelman, Antonios Zagaris

This is lecture 23 in the series "Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate" offered at the University of Minnesota in 2014 with the support of MCRN and The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate at UMN - Lecture 23

12 May 2015 | Presentations

This is lecture 23 in the series "Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate" offered at the University of Minnesota in 2014 with the support of MCRN and The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.

Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate at UMN - Lecture 23

12 May 2015 | Presentations | Contributor(s): Colin James Grudzien

This is lecture 23 in the series "Introduction to the Mathematics of Climate" offered at the University of Minnesota in 2014 with the support of MCRN and The Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.