GEOL 410/510 The Cryospehre

syllabus (pdf)

final outline (pdf)

laboratory exercises

Matlab review

global climate

lab chapter
Hulbe's short answers
global general circulation cartoons
data files
- globaltopo.mat
- globalclimatology.mat
Matlab scripts and functions
- f_map.m mapping function
- map_earthsurf.m (not required if you use f_map)
- map_surfacetemp.m (not required if you use f_map)
- map_slp.m (not required if you use f_map)

time series

GCM

Global Outlook for Ice and Snow, UNEP
Seager, 2006, The Source of Europe's Mild Climate
Scambos, 2011, Earth's ice: Sea level, climate, and our future commitment
Serreze et al., 2007, Perspectives on the Arctic's shrinking sea-ice cover
Straneo et al., 2010, Rapid circulation of warm subtropical waters in a major glacial fjord in East Greenland
Bindschadler, 2005, The environment and evolution of the West Antarctic ice sheet: setting the stage
McClintock et al., 2008, Ecological responses to climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula

short introduction to general circulation of the atmosphere
Weller and Wendler, 1990, Energy budgets over various types of terrain in polar regions, Annals of Glaciology.
Meier et al., 2007, Glaciers dominate eustatic sea-level rise in the 21st century
Ainley et al., 2005 Decadal-scale changes in the climate and biota of the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, 1950s to the 1990s